"This broad collection of creation stories is intended both as an iconfor the mission as well as a functional language recovery tool forpotential finders in unknown futures. As an iconic object, the creation stories suggest a mythic frame for the Rosetta Mission as it journeys to the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to elaborate our understanding of the scientific story of planetary genesis. And as a linguistic tool, the 1,000 parallel Genesis translations creates a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, enabling finders to work from known languages to decipher those on the disk unknown at the time of finding. Whether the finders are human or otherwise, this broad archive of human languages will hopefully offer a glimpse into the range and diversity of vernacular symbolic systems used by the peoples and cultures that have collectively sent the spacecraft.
This Rosetta Mission Rosetta Disk is a small platter of pure nickel,70mm in diameter and 0.3 mm thick, weighing 6-7 grams. The 7,000 pagesare micro-etched into the nickel as physical images (think engraving at a very small scale), with each page about a half millimeter tall.Reading the texts on the disk requires a 500X microscope. Thishigh-density analog storage technology avoids the operating system,application and format dependencies of digital storage systems as wellas the fast material decay rates of typical digital storage media."
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.esa.int
"Rosetta launch delayed for technical reasons"
27 February 2004 Today's launch of Flight 158 with the Rosettaspacecraft has been delayed for technical reasons. A piece of foambecame detached from the main stage and technical inspections are inprogress. The Rosetta spacecraft is safely under control and nointerventions are required. Launch is tentatively rescheduled forearly next week. Arianespace will hold a press conference in Kourouat 08:30 CET. A press briefing will take place simultaneously inESOC, Darmstadt.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)
This Rosetta Mission Rosetta Disk is a small platter of pure nickel,70mm in diameter and 0.3 mm thick, weighing 6-7 grams. The 7,000 pagesare micro-etched into the nickel as physical images (think engraving at a very small scale), with each page about a half millimeter tall.Reading the texts on the disk requires a 500X microscope.
I was looking for a thread to talk about my progress learning German with Rosetta Stone, but can I just say that any aliens who find this Rosetta Disk are going to assume that humans are roughly 2cm tall? Not that there's anything wrong with that...
― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:52 (seventeen years ago)