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Hopefully some remnant of humanity will cast out among the stars with ultra-high density storage holding archives of most of human knowledge.

• jeremyjh 5y ago
  How is that going to repair anyone's kettle?
  • zymhan 5y ago
    It may help if the kettle is somewhere between the Earth and Mars :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
• gzer0 5y ago
  The Voyager Golden Record is an attempt to do this. It's a record that contains sounds and images to portray life on earth [1]. This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours - President Jimmy Carter [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
• genewitch 5y ago
  a song i composed is being sent to the moon on an SD card or flash drive of some sort, i was told. Realistically if there is some faster-than-light mechanism, any interested alien or human could just "fast forward" and "rewind" through time to listen/watch our broadcasts from the appropriate distance from the original location. Barring that, I'm guessing the equivalent of stone tablets, or the golden record are the best bet. I wouldn't place any bets on anything that requires magnetism or electricity to survive in open space for long enough to matter. Like, platter bit-flips due to radiation from outer space are a thing, and current leakage would eventually render something like SSDs unreadable. So hard copy for earth, radio and hard copy for the universe?
• wrycoder 5y ago
  And some ancient civilization will entertain themselves by bidding against each other to win the rights to the contents of the archive.