Superman would be proud, as he had information on crystals as well, also the information of his dead civilisation.
Wadarkhu on
Future beings will have us on display under a glass casing like the Morris Worm computer virus.
garliclord on
Please don’t. If we go extinct it’s probably because we deserved it
Now_Wait-4-Last_Year on
Horror movie from the far future when an alien civilisation resurrects a great evil.
“Turns out it’s man.”
PrestigiousGlove585 on
Humanity with no prior knowledge of its previous existence. It could be trained in the culture of what ever species discovered it. It would only be human in form.
Also, humanity is evolving. The human on the crystal, may not be the version required in millions of years.
You could do this in a massive book if you wanted to. With tiny writing. The fact it is on a crystal is irrelevant really.
Shazalamadingdong on
Whatever you do, don’t store any actual human history on it or it’s a waste of good material.
08148693 on
Crystal storage is cool
Bringing humans back from extinction is just a hook to get their research in the news cycle, nothing more
Perudur1984 on
I think whatever advanced species finds such a crystal would do well to leave it well alone.
PhilosopherOdd155 on
This got me thinking of the ‘The chicken or the Egg’ dilemma again.
I need a lie down now.Â
schtickshift on
John Gray would say this is just another illustration of immorality. In reality the crystal will likely not make it intact through time. Look at the changes to the planet surface over mere millions of years let alone billions. So it can’t be stored anywhere safely. Shooting it into space will not work because of the expansion of the universe. It will never be found.
Dull_Half_6107 on
Launch copies out into various directions in space with a repeating signal from the payload, and see what happens.
jimmyrayreid on
I think we’ll be better off without a second chance actually
Cyanopicacooki on
I wonder if they’ll look at it and say the closest approximation in their language to “Bloody IKEA instructions, there’s always some bits missing”.
EnemyBattleCrab on
Unfortunately the researcher did not wash their hands after handling their cat…
Aliens that discover the crystal vials of DNA are now over run by cat boys and cat girls… May the lord have mercy on their souls…
varney40 on
Do presume this is the DNA of an actual person alive today ?
Panda_hat on
As far as we are aware, interstellar travel is impossible, and should we go extinct the fact that we have used up all of the easily accessible high energy sources of fuel make the rise and technological advancement of anything that comes after us on Earth essentially impossible.
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Superman would be proud, as he had information on crystals as well, also the information of his dead civilisation.
Future beings will have us on display under a glass casing like the Morris Worm computer virus.
Please don’t. If we go extinct it’s probably because we deserved it
Horror movie from the far future when an alien civilisation resurrects a great evil.
“Turns out it’s man.”
Humanity with no prior knowledge of its previous existence. It could be trained in the culture of what ever species discovered it. It would only be human in form.
Also, humanity is evolving. The human on the crystal, may not be the version required in millions of years.
You could do this in a massive book if you wanted to. With tiny writing. The fact it is on a crystal is irrelevant really.
Whatever you do, don’t store any actual human history on it or it’s a waste of good material.
Crystal storage is cool
Bringing humans back from extinction is just a hook to get their research in the news cycle, nothing more
I think whatever advanced species finds such a crystal would do well to leave it well alone.
This got me thinking of the ‘The chicken or the Egg’ dilemma again.
I need a lie down now.Â
John Gray would say this is just another illustration of immorality. In reality the crystal will likely not make it intact through time. Look at the changes to the planet surface over mere millions of years let alone billions. So it can’t be stored anywhere safely. Shooting it into space will not work because of the expansion of the universe. It will never be found.
Launch copies out into various directions in space with a repeating signal from the payload, and see what happens.
I think we’ll be better off without a second chance actually
I wonder if they’ll look at it and say the closest approximation in their language to “Bloody IKEA instructions, there’s always some bits missing”.
Unfortunately the researcher did not wash their hands after handling their cat…
Aliens that discover the crystal vials of DNA are now over run by cat boys and cat girls… May the lord have mercy on their souls…
Do presume this is the DNA of an actual person alive today ?
As far as we are aware, interstellar travel is impossible, and should we go extinct the fact that we have used up all of the easily accessible high energy sources of fuel make the rise and technological advancement of anything that comes after us on Earth essentially impossible.
Nobody is bringing us back.