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Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Sep 23, 2015 ^^
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Every time I think about all the messages and gifts we've sent out into the Universe, I get emotional. I just imagine them traveling for lightyears and lightyears, and maybe one day arriving into the curious arms of an alien civilization who, just like us, always wondered if they were alone. And then I imagine them, excitedly, exhaustedly, trying to decipher what we've written. Decoding the instructions on the record case. Putting the record on, and hearing us. Maybe not knowing exactly what they are about to experience. But then the first sounds come through and it thrills them. Our voices, and our music and our greetings. Despite the language barrier, I can't imagine how beautiful it would be to hear such a thing after dreaming of it for so long. It is a little bittersweet, though. After translating all the information on the items, they sit back, full of wonder and excitement, and yet full of sorrow. Because they know exactly how far away these beings are from them now. They are listening to a time capsule. The thought of this has always made me cry.
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The problem with the library of Babel is that since it contains EVERY combination of 3200 characters, the odds of finding a whole page of proper text that actually makes sense is incomprehensibly low. If we sent this library to aliens, they would probably just start trying to translate a random page that consists only of random letters and punctuation marks that donât actually mean anything.
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@Jacobadia
4 years ago
Imagine a plagiarism bot finding your essay copied from the library of Babel
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