KEO

Found this over at Midterm Yesterday.. Listed in my favorites. Run by Maya, a good friend of mine, Midterm Yesterday is a REAL look into who she really is. Check it out sometime. As for the article, I'm not sure if the Earth will be around in 50,000 years but it's not a bad idea. I doubt I'll make the trip to put my ideas in the thing, but still pretty cool. Check it out..

KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which will be launched in 2010 or 2011 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it will reenter Earth's atmosphere.Every person is invited to write a message addressed to the future inhabitants—the deadline is December 31, 2009. Messages can be posted via the project's website, or sent by postal mail. The organizers encourage everybody to gather messages from children, senior citizens and the illiterate so that every culture and demographic on Earth is represented. The satellite has enough capacity to carry a four-page message from each of the more than six billion inhabitants on the planet. Once the satellite is launched, the messages (with personal names removed) will be made freely available on the web.KEO will also carry a diamond that encases a drop of human blood chosen at random and samples of air, sea water and earth. The DNA of the human genome will be engraved on one of the faces. The satellite will also carry an astronomical clock that shows the current rotation rates of several pulsars, photographs of people of all cultures; and "the contemporary Library of Alexandria", an encyclopedic compendium of current human knowledge.

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