The French are going to launch a craft that will return to earth in about 50,000 years carrying messages from the year 2000. You can include your own unedited message by clicking on ‘message’…
Watch out, Kilgore Trout was martyred for this cause already.
well this WOULD be a good idea except for the fact that they’re using CD-ROM to encode the data.
Who the hell is going to have a CD-ROM player in 50,000 years? Even if they could decode it, who the hell is going to know what ASCII is? And who the hell is going to be speaking English or French in 50,000 years?
They should make an audio recording or engrave the text microscopically on something.
Oh great, now the French are speaking for the entire race? Shoot down that freakin’ spacecraft before they surrender the entire planet in the name of Jerry Lewis.