Message In A Bottle

[Salty Booger]

What would you do if you wanted to leave behind a message for future generations? Would you write a book, paint a picture, build a temple?

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[Heyo]

What would you do if you wanted to leave behind a message for future generations? Would you write a book, paint a picture, build a temple?

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Photo by Ylanite Koppens from Pexels

Stones have definitely the best half life, we can identify flint stone tools which are millions of years old, pictures which are tens of thousands years old, books which are thousands of years old.
And any electronic medium will be unreadable in tens of years.

 

[Salty Booger]

Stones have definitely the best half life,

When I worked production, I would sometimes take in a rock and sculpt it into a face using the sand blaster.

 

[Sunstone]

Whatever I wanted to leave for the ages, I would write up as a story. The best stories tend to be preserved for thousands of years. That is, they get transferred from one medium to another, from one culture to another, and so forth. Gilgamesh, for instance, contains an account of a flood that seems to have come down to us in modified form as Noah's Flood. But Gilgamesh is thousands of years old in written form and most likely was preserved in an oral form for considerable time before it was written down.

People like stories. They preserve the ones they love the most.

 

[MNoBody]

having made many stone artifacts, I can surmise that they will likely outlast the one who made them...
wonder what would be made of such in some distant future

 

[Salty Booger]

having made many stone artifacts, I can surmise that they will likely outlast the one who made them...
wonder what would be made of such in some distant future
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Brings back a memory about an effort to search a canal that was located near the residence of an artist who was known to throw his creations out the window during fits of frustration. Who knows, they may be excavating your backyard in a couple hundred years.

 

[MNoBody]

headstones might become a thing

 

[Salty Booger]

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But will anyone stop to read it?

 

[MNoBody]

But will anyone stop to read it?

at that point there would be no mind to mind if not, so no matter.

 

[Salty Booger]

at that point there would be no mind to mind if not, so no matter.

 

[ChristineM]

I don't reality care about leaving a message for the future, just burn me and put my ashes on the ground. I will be remembered by those who count. Everyone else has enough to think about. In the distant future who will care about some long dead woman.

There was an idea floated after Terry Pratchett died, it turns out that he had already written about one method of how...

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the clacks are a series of semaphore towers loosely based on the concept of the telegraph. Invented by an artificer named Robert Dearheart, the towers could send messages "at the speed of light" using standardized codes. Three of these codes are of particular import:

G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again

When Dearheart's son John died due to an accident while working on a clacks tower, Dearheart inserted John's name into the overhead of the clacks with a "GNU" in front of it as a way to memorialize his son forever (or for at least as long as the clacks are standing.)

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Keeping the legacy of Sir Terry Pratchett alive forever.
For as long as his name is still passed along the Clacks (internet),
Death can't have him.

Thousands of server operators all over the world have modified the header code on their servers (we were one) to include a hidden tribute to Terry Pratchett. Now the name of Terry Pratchett constantly flies around the world from server to server

If you have access to modify your server header and you would like to carry on the name of a brilliant author then hete is how...

GNU Terry Pratchett

 

[Salty Booger]

If you have access to modify your server header and you would like to carry on the name of a brilliant author then hete is how...

That's interesting