Keo Satellite - Be back in 50,000 years...

[Andylkl]

What if there was a way to contact with people from the future?

What if there was a way to leave a message for your future descendants?

What if this was actually a reality?


At the end of 2006, the Keo satellite will be launched into Earth's orbit carrying millions of messages from the citizens of Earth to Earthlings 50,000 years in the future. Enclosed in several layers of titanium, thermal and anti-shock layers, the sphere-shaped satellite coupled with shape memory alloys will orbit Earth for the next 50,000 years, raising when it touches the sun's rays and folding when it enters the shadows.

The satellite will be brought into space by the Ariane 5 rocket, which is built and designed by the European Space Agency. The agency, along with UNESCO and various organisations and institutions has given its support for the project and it has received a large amount of coverage in France and India.

Messages to Keo can be sent through the website or by postal mail, which is available on the website. Keo's organisers requests that all groups of the human race be represented in the project, the rich, the poor, the blind and everyone else is welcomed to participate in its project.

The deadline for the messages is December 31, 2004 (2 weeks left as of time of posting). So I'll cut short my post now to concentrate on writing my message. You can check out the satellite's website or the article on Wikipedia for a brief and simple introduction. =)

Btw, I'll be using the sig and avatar in support of the project until January 1, 2005. =)

[broken]

Thanks for that link, I left a message!

[Orpheus]

50,000? OMG! That wont work...

[darrenstraight]

Thanks for the info.

Now I must think of somethink pretty good to write out for it.

[broken]

I wonder what the earth will be like in 50,000 years time. Will there be any humans living on it? Or, in 1000 years time will they find out about the satellite and bring it down? We will never know...

[darrenstraight]

Originally Posted by broken

I wonder what the earth will be like in 50,000 years time. Will there be any humans living on it? Or, in 1000 years time will they find out about the satellite and bring it down? We will never know...

I totally agree with what you have just said about that in about a 1000 years they may find it and bring it down.

I was going to post the exact same message last night but I was a bit to sleepy to post it, maybe next time.

[jeramy]

even if there are people on earth 50,000 years from now, will they even speak a language similar to that of english? my guess would be no and since languages have been forgotten in a much shorter time than that it may mean nothing to the finders. i mean if it werent for the rosetta stone, we still wouldnt know what hieroglyphics mean.

[Eric]

I agree with Orpheus...I doubt even the strongest of metals, titanium will be able survive for 50000 years in space where there is nothing to desurface/decay it...Still it may get hit by fragments of meteors and MAYBE a comet(we don't know what might happen in the next 50000 years...maybe earth will get hit by a meteor just like the one that killed the dinosaurs)...well maybe not a comet, unless the comet is WAYYYY out of it's path ...
This Keo satellite thing seems like a stupid thing so I won't waste my time on writing a message for it..

[Andylkl]

Originally Posted by jeramy

even if there are people on earth 50,000 years from now, will they even speak a language similar to that of english? my guess would be no and since languages have been forgotten in a much shorter time than that it may mean nothing to the finders. i mean if it werent for the rosetta stone, we still wouldnt know what hieroglyphics mean.

That statement was quite freaky... You know, roughly 50,000 years ago from present day, the Egyptian civilisation had just started.

Anyways, the Rosetta stone was just a guide for the aincent Egyptians' language, but if we were take into consideration that technology has advanced rapidly in the past 100 years than the past 1,000 years, and that the emergence of new cultures and languages is unlikely due to the lack of new territories since most of the land on Earth has already been explored.

The French, English and Chinese languages has survived for roughly 2,000, 1,500 and 2,700 years respectively and look at the dominance of the internet, languages like this aren't going away on their own.

Originally Posted by Eric Straven

I agree with Orpheus...I doubt even the strongest of metals, titanium will be able survive for 50000 years in space where there is nothing to desurface/decay it...Still it may get hit by fragments of meteors and MAYBE a comet(we don't know what might happen in the next 50000 years...maybe earth will get hit by a meteor just like the one that killed the dinosaurs)...well maybe not a comet, unless the comet is WAYYYY out of it's path ...
This Keo satellite thing seems like a stupid thing so I won't waste my time on writing a message for it..

Eric, I don't think I have to explain why I have the utmost respect for the project. It may be your personal opinion, but a project dedicated to the future of humanity sure doesn't deserve to be called "stupid".

I'm not directing this at anyone here but I notice that most critics of the project are just rather short-sighted, they just don't see how it makes an impact in their lives, since everyone in this generation will be dead by the time the satellite returns to Earth. But since we as humans have just less than a hundred years to live, why not trying to make an impact in this world when you're still alive? Look at the bigger picture, if fate is on your side, you'd have a chance to leave a message to your descendants. Is that something not to be treasured?

[darrenstraight]

The deadline was yesterday, but it still looks like you can leave your message so you who have not yet done so now is your chance to do so.