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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    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.

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      532 months 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’”

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months 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
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          62 months 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.

      • object [Object]
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        32 months 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?

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      122 months 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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        32 months 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”.

    • @Noodle07
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      Ea nasir’s shitty copper complaint