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Published on: 11/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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The village of Nuit-Saint-Georges is the birthplace of famed 19th-century astronomer Felix Tisserand. He was the contemporary of French novelist Jules Verne, author of From the Earth to the Moon. Then, when the astronauts of Apollo 15 passed through the village, they were gifted a wine called Cuvee Terre Lune – Lunar Earth Vintage – which inspired them to name yet another crater after the town. The Golden Records contain sounds and images intended to provide a broad glimpse of life and culture on Earth. Images include DNA, human anatomy, animals and insects, plants and landscapes, food and architecture, and other aspects of the biosphere and civilisation. What it does not include, despite a common misconception: the Beatles track, Here Comes the Sun. Sanctuary on the Moon will be comprised of 24 discs, each a mere 10 centimetres in diameter, engraved with as many as seven billion pixels of information. The discs are made of sapphire – the second hardest mineral on Earth behind diamond – and the pixels are arranged to provide readable text under magnification. When magnified, it provides a collage of images that can be seen by the naked eye. Sanctuary team is putting time capsule on a medium requiring some form of reading device. To read their discs, “basically all you need to have is a magnifying glass” The discs are being designed with consideration for both information and aesthetics. The project spans three areas of focus: “What we are, what we know and what we make – and what our make is art” Sanctuary team devoted four of the 24 discs to the project. The first disc provides instructions on how to decode the human genome. From there, two female and two male genomes are presented in full. Sanctuary on the Moon is not intended with an extraterrestrial audience in mind. The project’s 100 billion pixels, admits Faiveley, “may be a lot, but it’s also an awfully small amount to sum up who we are” For our distant relatives Unlike the Golden Records, Sanctuary on The Moon may be found by our descendants millions of years from now. Sanctuary on the Moon is intended as a sort of intellectual insurance in the event of civilisation’s collapse. It’s not difficult to see how a time capsule exploring who we are today may raise disquieting questions. Palaeontologist Jean-Sebastien Steyer says Sanctuary may seem preoccupied with the future.
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Ive heard the theory that intelligent society has collapsed and reformed multiple times. I like the idea that we are safeguarding this by storing information across time.
We should really be storing a complete copy of wikepedia along with moat foss code and genetic information.
We also gotta account for the fact that where the information is mat be lost. Who knows if there isnt a simmillar database already on the moon and dinosaurs where more advanced than we though (ik ik but interesting through experiment).
It a cool idea.
Ps: whos genome is copied to the moon cos godamn is that a strategy for Darwinian survival.
