[url=http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/introuk.html]Go ahead, leave your message for the future:[/url]
[quote][b]KEO is a satellite built to return to Earth 50,000 years from today. It shall bring back to our far away descendants every message that each and every one of us is invited to put on board.[/b][/quote]
[quote]Each and every person on Earth is invited to address his or her far away descendants, be it to describe his or her life, to share a thought, to pass on his or her experiences, aspirations and dreams… to introduce him or herself within a few written lines (4 pages maximum, 6000 signs, spaces included). The messages are void of censorship: all received messages shall leave on board KEO.
Following the launch of the KEO satellite, all messages will be made anonymous in replicas conserved on Earth, and will be put on the KEO website, where they will be able to be freely accessed. Hence we shall all be able to take knowledge of the different messages, and appreciate the diversity of cultures languages, ages, and continents…it will be made possible to "visit" the thoughts of people we shall never meet.
By writing a personal message for the KEO project, each person is invited to join in a new form of citizen reflection and to take part in an inter-culture dialogue. Sociological analyses will be carried out based upon all the received messages so as to attempt to formulate an answer to the following questions that haunt us: "who are we?" and "what is it that we expect of ourselves?"[/quote]
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I doubt it'll float through space for 50,000 years and not get hit by any meteors or anything.