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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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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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'"

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I thought it meant sprinkling sugar on them and eating them as an after dinner treat

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month 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?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The entire screenplay of Skrek 4.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

Only okay if you number it #4 and don't make the first three.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month 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.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Skibidi Toilet" is all the cube says.

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: β€œnone of this makes any sense”.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ea nasir's shitty copper complaint