Saturday, May 19, 2007

Get a thrill!

Amazing project. Thrilled me, but if you heard about it before, just take it easy.
Anywho, there is this international KEO Project, dedicated to launching a satellite into the space (it is supposed to cut the circles around the Earth orbit for a few years - see below) and which will (reportedly) land back on our planet in about 50,000 years. The biggest fun of it is that besides sealing up in the capsule some blood, air, earth and water samples, everybody of us the contemporary earthlings is offered to write up to 4 pages of anything we want addressed to the dwellers of the future (whoever they will turn out to be, given that the Chinese civilization is of course 5,000 years old but only a few chosen can pretend to understand the language used back about that time). The digital scrolls will be recorded on a specially trained disc, and this offer is completely free of charge. Jokes aside, the whole thing is pretty nifty. Without much ado anybody can join in and reveal him/her/itself to their great-great-.....-grandchildren in all the wit and eloquence.

Another fun thing of it is this: China turned up in the top of the charts having sent the most number of messages to the KEO project (which is not surprising given the population of the country and the desire to reproduce [here I mean re-production in the purely copycatting sense of the word]). So if you haven't yet marked your existence in the annals of KEO I don't know what you are waiting for.

The only amazing incoherence is that even though China is number one in posting to the future, www.keo.org seems to be banned in China (use your favourite proxy if you are located in the Middle Kingdom). Are the guys posting up too much already or are they divulging something the grandkids are better off not knowing?

PS - Yeah, I forgot to mention - those guys are officially discussing the messages (having anonymoused them)) on their web-site, so even if your letter doesn't reach its Perfect Future destination, somebody may have some fun off it in the Continuous Present anyways. But who cares, it is a noble task and a richly deserving act, plus it broadens your horizons.

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