Keo- Send Messages To The Future!

MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
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What it is: <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEO' target='_blank'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEO</a>

In 2006, a sattellite called KEO is going to be launched as a time capsule, that will return to earth in 50,000 years. And every person on earth is allowed to submit a message that future generations can read:

<a href='http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/message.php' target='_blank'>http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/message.php</a>

I think this is very cool. We'll all be long dead, but its kind of neat that you can talk to the future of humanity.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Who else will be sending pictures of their arse?
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  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    edited May 2005
    Fifty <b><i>thousand</i></b> years? No consumer level spacecraft by then? The satellite will last that long?
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  • DuoGodOfDeathDuoGodOfDeath Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1044Members
    I want to be frozen for 50,000 years just to read my message I'm sending :o
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  • DarknsDarkns Join Date: 2004-09-05 Member: 31402Members, Constellation
    Can we send 4 pages of ASM? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 13 2005, 07:13 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 13 2005, 07:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Who else will be sending pictures of their arse? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Pornography must live on in 50,000 years!
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  • MavericMaveric Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1101Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->All the messages received, <u>after having being made anonymous</u>, <b>will be published for free consultation</b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <u>is a downright lie we tell you to sign your email adress</u>
    <b>we're gonna be goddamn rich when we sell the email adresses to spammers!!!1one!</b>
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Maveric+May 13 2005, 04:50 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Maveric @ May 13 2005, 04:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->All the messages received, <u>after having being made anonymous</u>, <b>will be published for free consultation</b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <u>is a downright lie we tell you to sign your email adress</u>
    <b>we're gonna be goddamn rich when we sell the email adresses to spammers!!!1one!</b> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Test. With. Hotmail. Account.
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    50,000 years? By then we probably won't even speak the same language any more. 5000 years would be more than future enough.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Nil IQ+May 13 2005, 05:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil IQ @ May 13 2005, 05:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 50,000 years? By then we probably won't even speak the same language any more. 5000 years would be more than future enough. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Wouldn't speaking with our mouths also be outdated by then? I mean surely we'd be telepathic by that time.
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 13 2005, 05:58 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 13 2005, 05:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Nil IQ+May 13 2005, 05:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil IQ @ May 13 2005, 05:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 50,000 years? By then we probably won't even speak the same language any more. 5000 years would be more than future enough. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Wouldn't speaking with our mouths also be outdated by then? I mean surely we'd be telepathic by that time. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Or dead (I mean the whole mankind <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )

    If there are still humans 50000 years later, I believe they have gone back into trees and caves to wonder if rocks are edible
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    BECUZ NUCLEAR WAR IS BAD AMIRITE FIGHT DA POWAR
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    -Metal Gear!?
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  • Black_ViperBlack_Viper Join Date: 2003-12-08 Member: 24157Members
    edited May 2005
    <!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->"I dont know about WWIII but WWIV Will be fought with sticks and stones..."
    ~ Albert Einstein<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->


    Id like to see where gaming is going to be in 50,000 years, NS just might be a real fight and not just a game... lol...



    Message sent, 2956 characters remained.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-MedHead+May 12 2005, 10:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ May 12 2005, 10:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Fifty <b><i>thousand</i></b> years? No consumer level spacecraft by then? The satellite will last that long? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I'd be more worried about anything that's going to care about the satellite lasting that long.
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I'd be more worried about the spacecraft burning up on reentry...

    There's no way they'd send something up with a big heavy heatsheild on it just on a whim. Too expensive.

    --Scythe--
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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    Impressive, might send a message but I dunno where to start at the moment.
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    We need to start a chain letter or something...

    "50,000 years ago, a game was created by a man known only as Flayra. He used his powers to absorb the imaginative creativity of MILLIONS of children, leaving them mindless zombies.

    Now he's back. By reading this message, you have awakened his spirit. Only by overexposure can he be defeated, as then the children can resist his mental attack. Spread this message to as many people as possible, for the safety of mankind and the preservation of the future."

    I mean, they'll need chainletters in the future, right?
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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    Send this to 50 people or you will be haunted by Flayra's spirit^ <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Quantum_MooseQuantum_Moose Join Date: 2005-03-05 Member: 43643Members
    This is pretty cool, but I also have no idea what to write right now.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Quantum Moose+May 13 2005, 08:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quantum Moose @ May 13 2005, 08:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> This is pretty cool, but I also have no idea what to write right now. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <insert name> woz ere 2005

    Thats not a bad start, if you are are chav with a can of spray paint in your hand.
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  • BreakthroughBreakthrough Texture Artist (ns_prometheus) Join Date: 2005-03-27 Member: 46620Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-My Message To Teh FUTAR!+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (My Message To Teh FUTAR!)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->We're gonna move to Woodbridge... Highway 7 and MartinGrove.

    Now I'm off to the school dance.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    It didn't require a e-mail address from me BTW...
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  • RatonetwothreetwooneRatonetwothreetwoone Join Date: 2004-03-23 Member: 27504Members
    ... this is so dumb... why would i care.. ill be long dead.. and after that i dont give a **** what happens to humanity... i wont be able to experience the look on peoples faces when i send them the book of revalations... or at least a part of it.. and in 50000 years the world wont even exist... theyre not going to spend a lot of money(even if all the money is gained through selling email adresses(which shouldnt sell for much nowadays anyway(i mean cmon who actually RECIEVES... and READS.. spam... thats so 6 years ago... the companies doing it cant possibly be getting any income...))) just to send some sattelite into orbit.. especially one that will LAST 50000 years.. (it wont even last in space.. much less earths reentry..) which is alleged to hold earths random messages...
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    I basically said, "Hey, it's been 50,000 years, you surly have mastered time travel, give me a message from the future".

    Yea...
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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Ratonetwothreetwoone+May 13 2005, 10:19 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ratonetwothreetwoone @ May 13 2005, 10:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ... this is so dumb... why would i care.. ill be long dead.. and after that i dont give a **** what happens to humanity... i wont be able to experience the look on peoples faces when i send them the book of revalations... or at least a part of it.. and in 50000 years the world wont even exist... theyre not going to spend a lot of money(even if all the money is gained through selling email adresses(which shouldnt sell for much nowadays anyway(i mean cmon who actually RECIEVES... and READS.. spam... thats so 6 years ago... the companies doing it cant possibly be getting any income...))) just to send some sattelite into orbit.. especially one that will LAST 50000 years.. (it wont even last in space.. much less earths reentry..) which is alleged to hold earths random messages... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I should think that the clever people have thought through the whole issue of allowing the capsule to actually survive and return, don't get your knickers in a twist.

    My only qualm is that language will have developed so much in 50,000 years that they will have no hope of reading it. Of course to counter this with all their technology and resources they may have many examples of our current language on record, theres no reason why they wouldn't.
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  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Uhm.. hello, is this Mr. Caboose from the year 2005? We just recieved your message from the time capsule and sent back a guy in a time-travel machine to give you the answer to your questions:

    - No, hardcore pron still isn't considered an art.

    - Yes, there are Space Marines. Most of them are currently fighting an alien race called the "Khirii". But this won't be anyproblem, we think. The president of the world, Mr. the-head-of-George-Dubya-Bush-in-a-tank, ust said on an interview that he thinks this conflict will be settled within a couple of weeks.

    - No, our records don't show any sign for a nymphomanic tribe of space amazons having taken over earth within the last 50.000 years.

    Regards

    Don Joe, year 52.005
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Hypergrip+May 14 2005, 01:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hypergrip @ May 14 2005, 01:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Uhm.. hello, is this Mr. Caboose from the year 2005? We just recieved your message from the time capsule and sent back a guy in a time-travel machine to give you the answer to your questions:

    - No, hardcore pron still isn't considered an art.

    - Yes, there are Space Marines. Most of them are currently fighting an alien race called the "Khirii". But this won't be anyproblem, we think. The president of the world, Mr. the-head-of-George-Dubya-Bush-in-a-tank, ust said on an interview that he thinks this conflict will be settled within a couple of weeks.

    - No, our records don't show any sign for a nymphomanic tribe of space amazons having taken over earth within the last 50.000 years.

    Regards

    Don Joe, year 52.005 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hypergrip wins at life.

    I don't see why they have to send it into space though, really. Just dump it down a really deep abyss in the ocean. By the time it's meant to be read, technology will have advanced enough for people to retrieve it.
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Sent my message. Around 5000 signs, general tenor: "Who - or whatever you are, think for yourself."

    Oh, and you don't have to enter an adress. All you need to give to them are general demographic infos (age, country of residence, mother tongue...).
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  • BaconTheoryBaconTheory Join Date: 2003-09-06 Member: 20615Members
    edited May 2005
    They can't be serious... This can't be real, can it?

    Also, where in the hell is it going to hang out for 50,000 years? Chillin' with Jupiter? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    Deer Humanz

    Wee r komming in 50,000 yeers. And there is notting U can do 2 stup os!!

    MWhahahaa We will eet you all.



    General Onos
    Commander, Kharaan Horde
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    I want this posted:

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The natual-selection skorpion hovers without flapping, and will eat for christ.

        -Half-life natual selection community.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I can imagine the cocked heads looking at that 50,000 years in the future, then they go to google to see what its about, then they start the NS community back up <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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