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Am I insane? (lemmy.world)

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.

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[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For wanting to leave a legacy that will last, and a message for anyone or anything that finds it? No, that's not insane, that's understandable, I think.

What will determine the insanity quotient is the message you want to inscribe.

[-] ValiantDust@feddit.org 49 points 2 days ago

In a few thousand years...

"We finally deciphered the text on it. It's a monument to love, to undying loyalty and affection! How amazing! Here, it reads: 'Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down'"

[-] Sparky 3 points 1 day ago

Can we all splurge on a cubesat with a vinyl record or some other media that contains "never gonna give you up" , and make our own voyager sattelite for other lifeforms to receive?

[-] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Parts of it remain indecipherable without the social context, however, as the writer explicitly assumes a mutual knowledge of some set of unspecified rules.

[-] ValiantDust@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

From the line "Never gonna run around and desert you" we can gather that when a relationship came to an end, the person ending the relationship would run around frantically and burn all possessions of their former partner, thus turning their property into a desert, or "deserting" them.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago

I thought it meant sprinkling sugar on them and eating them as an after dinner treat

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

"Skibidi Toilet" is all the cube says.

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 1 day ago

Oh boy is that going to be a perplexing mystery for future archeologists. I can already imagine a PhD student banging their head on a desk screaming: “none of this makes any sense”.

[-] gazter@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago

Thousands of years in the future, our descendents will return to Earth, to visit museums of ancient culture, and marvel at the Tungsten Cube of Dickbutt.

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