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Would it be possible to create a bitmap of the night sky such that the data — as stored on the storage medium — corresponded to the stars’ relative locations?
by lurquer 6y ago
Would it be possible to create a bitmap of the night sky such that the data — as stored on the storage medium — corresponded to the stars’ relative locations?
Like a DVD or CD...
Anyway, I think if we created such an image and left the burned DVDs here and there, we could seriously confuse the shit out of some future archeologist.
- limeblack 6y agoDVD life span is 30 to 100 years[1] so I would try something else. [1] https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00009195#:~:text=A%20typical%20DVD%20disc%20has,the%20longevity%20of%20the%20media https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00009195#:....
- lurquer 6y agoSheesh. You have to ruin everything... Ok... How about this... Let’s do it backwards: arrange the data on a DVD so that the one’s correspond to the stars in their relative position. Then, see what the resulting image looks like. Or, better yet, read it as an MPEG; imagine the horror if it outputted as a rickroll.
- 0134340 6y agoThat was done like 40 years ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-is-on-voyagers-golden-record-73063839/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-is-on-voy...