The most beautiful idea ever, immortality awaits

god how i wish id thoght of this

www.keo.org

basically what these guys are doing is collecting as many stories as possible from people around the world as well as other things from the 21st century. All of this will be put into a capsule hat will be shot into space in 2006 on a long route that should return to earth in 50000 years time to tell our decendants about us.
JUST READ THE SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you please

that is being sent to all my friends and i am coming up with a written thingy have you added anything?

lol i just immediately thought of Buck Rogers

Ohh neato, I will have to make time to sit down and write out something thoughtful and hopefully insightfull.

I doubt the world will exist in 50k years, but it would be neat to be a part of history!

so it's going on a orbit that takes 50K years to complete and it's not going to be knocked off course by any number of gravitational wells, ion storms, meteorites etc...? All it takes is a very minor shift in course, a tiny misscalculation and over that big of an orbit it will either miss earth or hit the atmosphere so hard there will be nothing left.

Biggest waste of money ever.

spot the pessimist!!

aw! spoilsport.

lovely idea i'll pop a message in

also, in that amount of time language and dialect will have changed so dramatically that it'll be like us trying to decipher heiroglyphics (spell?) only worse. The stories will make no sense whatsoever....

nice idea in theory though

Plus if some alien picks it up they'll be able to follow it back to us and we'll all end up in slavery to the Traalians or something.

Don't you guys ever watch Star Trek?

If they aliens are advanced tho they might bring insight and new knowledge, peace to the world and satisfy all our curious thoughts....don't you watch Star Trek!!

I think it's a very nice idea, so long as it can navigate by itself ok!

I'm gonna include some poi instructions without words so the future people can learn to spin, that's of course unless the spinny people have taken over the world in a new order of peace love and rotational toys!!

tut tut tut, when will you all realise that we were created by aliens!!! so they know everything there is to know about us human types! so do not fear they have no interest in what we mere mortals pop into a satalite

write your messages in fundamental mathematics... yup.

I predict that if aliens land on our planet they will become helplessly addicted to WizzFizz which will be a toxin to their alien bodies and they will all die and we will subsequently bear the weight of countless alien souls on our.. souls and we will be damned to an eternity of remorse, so let's hope they DON'T find their way back here.

remember kids, candy kills

jeeza, you guys really do get carried away!

just write something nice, whack it in and all will be coll. and even if it never returns, something will pick it up and go WOW!!!!!!!

so just write stuff you silly bobbleheds!!!

bump, bump, bump it up!

*bump*

me thinks its a cool idea personally! think how interested we would be if we found somthing like this from 50k years ago/millions of miles away...

For some reason my mind jumps to Futurama when they find the rubbish, and it has all those bart simpson dolls...

Ha ha I love that! That's utter genius

they shud probably notch the time a bit. Our sun will probably becum a red giant or sumthin and burnt everythinmg to a crisp by then. our predecessors will be roasty toasty and very, very crispy. oh dear.