It sounds cool, but is it really necessary for us to leave an earth library on the moon? No one knows the answer, but it shouldn't be a bad idea.
No one knows what the apocalypse is like, and no one knows when it will come. But you don't have to worry, because there is already a non-profit organization considering this issue. The Arch Mission Foundation from Los Angeles is committed to backing up the most important knowledge of human beings and spreading this data to the earth and even the entire solar system. This project originated from the childhood dream of Nova Spivack, the co-founder of the organization. He was deeply influenced by isaac asimov's "Base" series of science fiction novels. These novels tell the story that a group of scientists predicted that civilization would be destroyed. They tried their best to race against time, fight against warlords in the galaxy and protect the achievements of human civilization-perhaps including mankind itself-before it was all over.
The Arch Mission Foundation hopes to build an archive of human cultural achievements in the past 5,000 years, and spread these data to the whole solar system, caves, mountains and underwater on the earth. One day, they will see the light of day again. In addition to this "library" leading to the moon, there is also a glove box installed on the space exploration technology company Tesla space supercar, which successfully entered the orbit around the sun in February 20 18. It will go around the sun endlessly-if anyone needs an outline of human knowledge, it will be a good choice.
But how does Arch Mission Foundation choose materials for the lunar library and other missions?
"The Moon Library carries a comprehensive backup of human knowledge," said Matt Hoert, the production director of the Arch Mission Foundation. "We are trying to further integrate some integrated databases, which cover a wide range of viewpoints, history, ethnic divisions, situations of various countries, different traditions and cultures, thus accurately reflecting the diversity of the entire human civilization. But no matter what we do, we can't satisfy everyone, so the only solution is to provide enough storage space, which is too big to manage data. In the near future, this library will have enough space for everyone to store all the data they want to store.
Illustration: The cover of Voyager Gold Record
The "most important knowledge of mankind" selected by scholars and scientists of the Arch Mission Foundation team mainly comes from the open databases of Wikimedia Foundation, Long Now Foundation, Gutenberg Project and Internet Archives, as well as databases contributed by other individuals or organizations. Generally speaking, this is an all-inclusive database, but it is stuffed into 25 DVD-sized pure nickel disks with a thickness of only 40 microns.
Storing information in space is actually quite troublesome-especially when you want to keep the data for billions of years. Take the Moon Library as an example. It must not only resist cosmic radiation, but also endure the extreme temperature on the surface of the moon. Because pure nickel does not decay and has no half-life, it is not easy to be damaged even in space environment. More than 60,000 tiny pictures-including photos and some pages-are engraved on the first four disks of this "library" in Nanofiche format, and those who find them in the future only need a microscope to browse these data. )
Illustration: Commonly used aliases in The Golden Record of the Traveler
The information in the inner layer of the "Library" tells future readers about the efforts made by the Arch Mission Foundation for future human beings rather than aliens, but they need a computer to retrieve this information. "We hope to accurately preserve the human past into the distant future. If we want to do this, we should not only convey our success and victory, but also convey our mistakes and regrets. " Holt said, "We don't want any history to be erased."
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