A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization. - NBCNewsMACH
launched toward the moon last week, it was carrying a mysterious cargo. Mission planners called it a time capsule but hinted that that wasn’t the whole story. Now the truth is out: The little lunar probe carries a 30-million-page archive of human knowledge etched into a DVD-size metal disc.
, we need to find ways to raise our awareness of what worked and didn't work, and we need to ensure it is shared with the people of the future.”Paul Davies, director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Physics at Arizona State University, regards the Lunar Library as mostly symbolic, yet still important. “It encourages people to reflect on humankind's place in the universe,” he said, and to rethink how we search for evidence of nonhuman civilizations, too.
For the Lunar Library, the scope had to be far wider. “We are building a Rosetta Stone for beings who inhabit our solar system in the future,” Spivack said.: a collection of songs, children’s drawings and writings about Israeli culture and history. But the rest is truly encyclopedic.
Spivack acknowledged as much but pointed out that the Lunar Library is just one component of an even more audacious project called the Billion Year Archive — an effort that should live up to its name. The disc in theis a test run of that archive, as is a prototype Arch Library launched into Earth's orbit last October. Many more collections are yet to come, each replicating the content in the Lunar Library.
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