Timeline for How to share knowledge to a future human civilization who doesn't know our languages?
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 10:11 | answer | added | marmouset | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 4:44 | comment | added | BruceWayne | On a much smaller scale, this very problem exists with storing nuclear waste | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 0:43 | answer | added | Lucas | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | JDługosz | Many posts repeat or re-invent things explained in detail in Benford’s Deep Time book. You really should read that. Here is an early report, now used as an introduction, that made him want to write a whole book, free to read. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 12:55 | comment | added | MatthewRock | Please remember that digital media are extremely fragile; CD-s, HDDs, pendrives, SSDs, any almost any other digital media you can imagine has really short lifespan(less than 100 years). If you include computer, robot, or any media that won't be maintained and/or replaced when neccesary, you won't get far. I'd bet that after 50 years robot wouldn't really want, but I'm almost entirely sure that 500 years would be too much for its electronics, not to mention 20x more. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 12:48 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | MolbOrg | some answers from that question Million-year-old records address problem of reading information after long time of storage, in therms of overcoming comprehensive barrier | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 12:18 | answer | added | Murphy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 10:27 | answer | added | Jack Aidley | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 10:17 | comment | added | Simba | You say "unfortunately there is no Rosetta Stone or similar object to help to translation", but that's exactly what you're going to need to provide in order for the future people to be able to read your content. Give them as much help with understanding the message as you possibly can. You'll probably need more content for that than for the message itself. | |
| S Sep 7, 2016 at 9:48 | history | suggested | Mast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typos, added relevant tag.
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 9:35 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 6:25 | comment | added | Rolen Koh | The same way we know about hunter-gatherer societies and ancient societies with the help of cave-paintings and pictographs which many ancient societies used for writing or putting down ideas, even though we don't know what language(s) they used or used at all in its modern sense. A picture is worth a thousand words is true for every civilisation and time-period, I guess and almost every answer here talks about it in one way or the other. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 1:11 | answer | added | Tenacity | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 0:03 | answer | added | Pommerbot | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 22:19 | answer | added | JerryTheC | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 21:25 | comment | added | Marky | @roipoussiere I've seen the "." notation instead of the "," notation for large numbers in plenty of use cases, and it makes sense and is perfectly readable once your used to it. I think the comment was more about confusions rather then a need for a correction. ( I didn't even actually notice it consciously till it was pointed out to be honest) | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 21:20 | answer | added | Dewi Morgan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 20:46 | comment | added | roipoussiere |
Oh ok, sorry for this typo mistake. But for me it's a proof that sometimes, using different languages (I used . by mistake because I'm french but there is only one notation in English), people can interpret the sense of a text and understand anyway. Because you didn't really read 10 years, you read 10k years, with a mistake.
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 20:29 | comment | added | pluckedkiwi | @roipoussiere Michael is commenting on your notation - using 10.000 (which looks like 10 but with accuracy down to the thousandths of a unit) rather than 10,000 to mean ten thousand years (which punctuation mark is used for which purpose can differ). | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 19:11 | comment | added | roipoussiere | I don't understand. Years are a unit of time well defined and understandable for both of us: the time during of full rotation of the Earth around the sun. This definition should of course, be present in the "manual". | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 19:05 | comment | added | Michael | Even speaking the same language there can be barriers to communication. For instance, to me 10.000 years is the same as 10 years, while I assume you mean what I would call 10,000 years. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 18:01 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 17:56 | answer | added | nigel222 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 17:02 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Specify in the title the main language aspect.
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:45 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Specify the "automous" word.
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:34 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Specify that the question is initially asked for language aspects.
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:02 | answer | added | Azuaron | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | roipoussiere | The question is more for the language and communication aspects than for the preservation of the object, although these last are also interesting. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 15:46 | comment | added | user | I recommend reviewing our written-material and preservation tags. You may find those questions to be of interest. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 15:38 | answer | added | Marky | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 15:27 | comment | added | user6760 | take a tissue sample from the well preserved woolly mammoth and dump all the data from google' server into it's genome then remember to put it back to its original resting place... or anywhere cool. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 14:57 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed gramar
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 14:43 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Deletes the 2 last sentences, which answers a little bit the question.
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 14:16 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Don't use the world "book" in the question.
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 14:01 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 14:01 | answer | added | sequoiad | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:58 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:56 | comment | added | roipoussiere | Thanks. It can be any object which can survive 10.000 years, so a solar powered computer for example is good. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:56 | answer | added | GrinningX | timeline score: 37 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:53 | history | edited | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:52 | comment | added | Frostfyre | Welcome to the site. Just out of curiosity, have you considered using a computer for this purpose, or does it have to be a book? | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:51 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 13:48 | history | asked | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |