I am seriously thinking of commissioning a simple tungsten cube emblazoned with cuneiform style figures, set up on a stainless steel platform. For the legacy. For someone millions of years from now.
Maybe, but in a good way. Do it!
It sounds like an interesting project, actually. So, no, I don’t think you are.
IMO, the real question is how to preserve it in deep time. Where is accessible enough but also protected? The best place would probably be a location that is heavily contaminated by toxic or nuclear waste. Those will likely remain time capsules in the near term, but remain as focal points in deep time. Find a spot that is likely to survive continental drift, the next super continent, and countless ice ages. I dare you. Do it! Make the ultimate geo cache.
Dang didn’t think of a nuclear site. Was thinking more along the lines of a protected area. The only problem with toxic environment would be protecting the material itself in a budget friendly way
You are too smart to survive. You are the weakest link.
How about the bottom of Mariana tench? The intense pressure will make sure some Mr Rando can’t just pop in one day and smack it with a hammer. If you keep this relic in the remains of the exploded reactor in Chernobyl, some nut job can just run in, cause some damage and run away. Sure, they will pay with their life, but that won’t fix the hammer marks on the cube.
Chemical dangers are another option, but those kinds of places aren’t stable for a million years. Some volcanoes spew sulfur dioxide, which would be a good repellant, but those vents open and close in unexpected ways.
For bonus points shoot it into deep space. Maybe some alien civilization will run into it trillions of years from now.
You wouldn’t be the first! If you do do it, then you should make a video for us here on Lemmy ❤️
Yes, you’re crazy. Stainless steel won’t last a million years. Not even close. You should go with titanium instead. That would also create a massive density difference between the two pieces in case someone lifts them up separately. Feeling the weight difference of the two pieces is very confusing for most people.
This might blow your mind, but I currently have a titanium chastity cage.
Your schlong will not last as long as that material allows for. So I’d go with a titanium casting of it, complete with vulgarities, like the graffiti in Pompeii
We all are, together.
That’s optimistic.
And here I thought I was a black pill everyone crushed up and snorted.
Put the same text in 6 different languages (maybe: English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, and Bengali to get as many scripts as possible?) on each side of the cube. Be the Rosetta Stone of the future. Be sure to get a native speaker to look over each text before you comission it.
That should be enough work to discourage you. :)
Ceramics…. There is an Isaac Asimov story where the only evidence they can find that humans used to live on Earth is the presence of what appear to be toilets and sinks. All else is dust.
Can I sign it?
I think that is awesome
Fuck you. Don’t encourage me.
Do you want some discouragement?
Stainless steel is stains less not rusts never. You would need additional measures to keep the stand from degrading over thousands of years. Your local archeology department could give you some pointers on how to accomplish that.
Or maybe you design the stand in such a way that the tungsten object is held firmly, but still easily visible in rusty stainless jaws.
You’re a genius and I love you.
Nope. Fuuuuuuuuck off.
You are a spectacular human being and worthy of love and support.
Well fuck you. So are you, you spectacular and amazing human being.
Have an email complaining about you etched onto it
Send me that email. I feel lacking.
Especially if you happen to sell poor-quality copper
That Ea-nasir was a crook. Everyone’s saying it.
The cuneiform bit definitely seems like you’re trying to troll across the ages. Why else would you do that?
Eh, if you have the money, it’s probably fine.
My current weird things:
- Switched from my normal time zone to UTC on all my clocks.
- Chose to study Esperanto instead of a more practical language because of its past of hopefulness
- Plan on switching to a 13-month calendar in the future (is going to require modifying the opensource calendar I use to allow the change)
- Switched to barefoot shoes not for health but the diminished cost in materials.
- changed my keyboard to a dactyl manuform for the hell of it.
- changed my keyboard scheme to Dvorak now.
- changed my videogame control scheme from wasd to dcxf to accommodate the keyboard (in Dvorak that’s exku).
We’re all alittle eccentric. Some of us more than others.
I don’t think this is crazy at all. It sounds like art. And we have lots of art that is meant to endure for centuries, like oil paintings.
I mean, if yoy have the money and inclination, sounds like a nerdy but pretty cool project!
