Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org)

A new Meta page on Wikimedia.org reports: "A group of science enthusiasts from Berlin, Germany, are planning to send their own custom-built rover to the Moon. And they want to take Wikipedia with them." Sort of. Wikimedia Deutschland has been offered space on a data disc to be carried by one of the five image-gathering rovers still competing to land on the Moon by 2017 for the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenge. But there's only 20 gigabytes of space, so they're calling on the Wikipedia communities to agree on which content should be included by June 24. "Even if only a snapshot of Wikipedia can be brought to the Moon, its content will equal a genuine snapshot of the sum of all human knowledge..." the Meta page explains "This is an anniversary gift to all Wikipedia communities all over the world."

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Vandals, go!

[GuB-42]

Now is your chance to send your message to the moon.

Re:most depressing thing I've read so far today

[Kjella]

Or is it the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've read so far today? Sometimes the line is very blurred.

I went with hilarious. Boy you need a lot of hubris to make that kind of statement, try making say a 14nm CPU or Boeing 747 from Wikipedia and see how far you get...

How about a new Rosetta Stone

[Woldscum]

I'm thinking a Humankind Rosetta stone. All known past and present writing systems spelling out the same message. Same with mathematical systems.

I nominate this article...

[Catmeat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories

Future News

[Rei]

"And in Future News, in response to the hack of Wikipedia's servers and the discovery that their offsite backup service was a scam, the Wikimedia foundation has launched the new Wikimedia Lunar X-Prize, for the first team who can travel to the moon, retrieve a data disc and return it safely to Earth...."