Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Time is running out!

You only have until the end of the year. Hurry up!! For what you might ask? Your address to the future inhabitants of Earth in the year 52007 (or sometime around then...) The KEO satellite is a time capsule designed to return to Earth in 50,000 years. There is enough space on the satellite to carry a four page message from every person on Earth as well as a diamond encased with a drop of human blood, samples of air, sea water, and earth. Engraved on the diamond will be the human genome. Also included will be an astronomical clock, photos of all cultures, and an "encyclopaedic compendium of current human knowledge."

Did you know that there is an International Time Capsule Society charged with keeping track of all time capsules so they aren't lost? That seems to me like the International Federation of Competitive Eating.....

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