2024-03-22 16:58:07
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Transmit human knowledge, but also deliver a universalist message to our descendants, as well as to potential extraterrestrials. This is the objective of the “Sanctuary on the Moon” project, which plans, by 2027, to send to the moon a capsule containing sapphire discs on which literary works, scientific demonstrations or even reproductions of the human genome, like so many “recipes” for recreating human life.
“Draw inspiration from past projects with present tools, while preparing the archeology of the future.” This is how engineer Benoit Faiveley describes his “Sanctuary on the Moon” project, consisting of engraving a large part of current human knowledge on 24 sapphire discs. They will fly to the moon in 2027 aboard NASA’s Artemis mission.
The texts written on the discs will be accessible in around twenty languages including Inuktitut, and will also use mathematical symbols. The engineer, surrounded by scientists and supported by UNESCO, wishes to deliver a universalist message to our descendants, as well as to our contemporaries – and potentially to extraterrestrial life forms.
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