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rosetta
Create a "permanent" rosetta stone for the future | |
someone should build a highly redundant
repository of all current human
knowledge. the bulk of it could be
redundant computer-based systems.
but the monument would haveevery
current language written out in whatever
the mot long lasting material we have is -
i'd say plastic, but htat might
melt.
anyway, in order to insure that whoever
found this would know what the language
sounded like, there would need to be
some kind of binary way of representing
osunds etched into the material - like a
barcode. ideally, if someone dragged a
stick across this, it would make a sound
(that's not a bad idea by itself), that sound
would be the same as the the words on
the monument.
the phrase would be tough to come up
with - it would want to include all sounds
for every language. i imagine chinese
would be the hardest to include.
the redundancy should go to the materials
level - like the way corian always has the
same surface, even when you sand it, the
words should go all the way through the
material, so even if chunks were lost, it
would still be legible.
then of course tehre would be instructions
on how to use the computer stuff,
assuming it survived. the computer parts
would be updated as technology
improved.
Modern Rosetta Stone
http://www.mirabili...rchives/000228.html
Though your definition of the word "stone" may differ from these guys. [DrCurry, Apr 26 2005]
Rosetta Porn
Rosetta_20Porn
[theircompetitor, Nov 28 2005]
Rosetta Cemetery
Rosetta_20Cemetery
[theircompetitor, Nov 28 2005]
[simpleknight]'s link repaired
http://www.washingt...R2005112601065.html
[jurist, Nov 29 2005]
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The most likely material is aluminium. It develops a layer of oxide on the surface, that protects the inner metal. |
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The problems I see with this are:
1. Selecting the knowledge to be recorded, without offending the other half or 3/4 of people. (Witness the textbook debate between China and Japan)
2.The sheer volume of this project, as our knowledge grows by a vast amount each day.
3. Ensuring a geologically, politically stable, accessible place for the repository. For instance: the most stable geologically, is probably in northern central Asia. The most politically stable is Iceland. The most accessible, to the greatest number of people, is in China.
4. Selecting a language that will be universal, 5000 years hence. Good luck. Most languages undergo too much morphology in just a dozen centuries (an infinitessimal time, in geological terms) to be understandable to anyone but linguistic experts. |
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Nice idea, but I think it overestimates our importance. |
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Just sticking to the Rosetta Stone part, and ignoring the "repository of all current human knowledge," clearly an absurdity, this is pretty Baked. |
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Yes, it's baked, but it's far too ambitious to ever be realised. |
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Well, not that this suports anything, but
apparently the Scientologists get it: |
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http://
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2005/11/26/
AR2005112601065.html |
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It seems to me if we want
the future to know we aren't all wackos,
we need to combat this. And my idea
would do it ;) |
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Something to bear in mind when passing judgment on civilizations past by the words they have left us. |
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unfortunately simplesoul, that link is broke... |
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no more, dead, pining for the fjords or something |
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I repaired that link address and appended it, just in case you really needed to know how to find L. Ron Hubbard's tablets. |
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