{"id":3048,"date":"2002-08-19T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2002-08-19T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2002-08-19T14:24:22","slug":"saving_time_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/19\/saving_time_in.html","title":{"rendered":"Saving time in a bottle — er, satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to send a message in a satellite to our ancestors (or successors) 50k years into the future? Leave your 6,000 word message here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though — given our inability to understand more than a fraction of what our human ancestors were scribbling on cave walls 50k years ago<\/i>, the idea that these messages will actually be understandable or of interest to anyone (assuming that anyone’s around, or that “anyone” is a meaningful concept then) seems a good an example of 21st Century hubris as any other.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll send a knock-knock joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Want to send a message in a satellite to our ancestors (or successors) 50k years into the future? Leave your 6,000 word message here. 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