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We Landed the Wikipedia on the Moon Last Night
- airesearcher 3y agoLast night on the Intuitive Machines moon landing we successfully delivered the English Wikipedia and much more to the Moon, etched into metal discs, where it will remain for up to 5 billion years. This is our third attempt and it finally worked - more than a decade of hard work by thousands of people has finally worked. More details also at www.archmission.org (no tardigrades on board in case you were wondering). Massive amount of content now safely preserved in Earth's first offsite backup.
- sanitycheck 3y agoAnd if we ever need it in future, all we need to do is slowly build up our civilization to the level of advancement where we can travel to the moon and... Oh, I suppose at that point we can just leave it there.
- airesearcher 3y agoLink to article on the landing: https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/third-times-a-charm-lunar-library-successfully-lands-on-the-moon-backup-of-human-civilization-1ef424ebe4f2 https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/third-times-a-cha...
- MilnerRoute 3y agoThis is the same group that got a quartz disk with a copy of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy into that Tesla Roadster that was blasted into space in 2018... https://thenewstack.io/how-to-build-a-billion-year-library-on-the-moon/ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-build-a-billion-year-library-o...