This has to be pretty cool. The ESA (the European Space Agency, for the uninitiated) is launching into space a satellite which will return to Earth 50006 years hence. Encoded on 100 DVDs, together of course with instructions on how to construct a DVD player, will be messages from members of the public who have e-mailed the organizers. No censorship will be exercised, and anyone can submit up to four type-written pages. Assuming that humans have not been so stupid as to eliminate themselves, or to destroy records of their linguistic history, people 500 centuries from now could be reading what we have written.
What would you say? What messages do you think could conceivably have any interest or relevance to the people, if I can even call them that, of 52012AD?
I recommend that we compose messages in Latin and, if the typesetting so allows, Greek, on the principal that (i) these languages will be exactly as dead as English is by the time the beast returns and (ii) whoever is there, be they human or our evolved monkey overlords, should know that some people were interested in concerns more distant to everyday life than Big Brother or Survivor. A message in Latin must surely have a timeless quality, and although my skills at Latin prose composition, as Episcopus would say sugant, I intend to say something. I’m not sure what yet.
By then we will have inversed the world of life according to das Inverse Theory the gradient of the tangent to our planet in 50006 years will have indeed become its normal. Negative inversed gradient. That’s to say we will apart from porn stars as constants other than coefficients of x (x^3) be differentiated and long gone. But then the harsh conditions will just take them in any case. The earth will be desolate more uranium will have decomposed to thorium thus decreasing general convection currents below the surface everything will be eerie and still. Corner shops will now not be in the middle of the submerged streetZ. And as an inverse world values of racism in my school shall be negligible as the mass of a muon quark! Quark quark quark will be chickens with heads shaped like the pink electron of francium with a smiley face quark quark ow such species will be hostile and peck you if you try to remove its u quark. Electrons will now be visible their mass as 9.11x10^-31 kg is now inversed! Imagine a big pink P shaped x y z orbital in your bloody face flying at (1/3)^-1 speed of light! In the old world it was just 1/3 now it’s inversed. Ow that’s a big chicken/quark hybrid! Yet the Lord will integrate this world and find our constant values in terms of k! Jesus saves! (I wrote it on a bridge on the M4 you’ve probably seen it Turp!) Hark the Herald inverse Theory perpendicular bisectors sing! I hope that I may become a genius create an elixir I DO NOT CARE IF I HAVE TO KILL LITTLE WIZARD GIRLS in order to see such harsh times.
I can not agree more that an apology would be in order O Turpissime but how would a chicken with a 9.11x10^31kg pink smiley face francium electron head be able to read understand or even at this point accept it?
Chemistry exams I have to concentrate because I keep inversing things and refuse to believe that francium is “white” it’s obviously pink with evil smiley face electrons how else can it be so insanely evil. My friend Zhi and I come up with crazy theories that we somehow forget are only the truth in this inverse world of 50006 hence.
Thanks for your faith in my random (advanced! e-) sheets of graph paper that I talk but no need for a message. I enim shall still be alive!
