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30-million-page archive of humanity's achievements headed to the Moon
FoxNews.com ^ | Feb 28, 2019 | Christopher Carbone | Fox News

Posted on 02/28/2019 8:07:03 AM PST by ETL

Tucked away inside Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander, currently on its way to the Moon, is a massive archive documenting humanity’s achievements.

The collection of images, text and symbols is the first part of a project to build a “Lunar Library” and part of a bigger push to create a space-based archive of Earth.

According to the Arch Mission Foundation (AMF), the library contains 30 million pages of human history that covers a wide range of subjects, languages and time periods, all stored on a DVD-sized archive made of 25 nickel discs that are each only 40 microns thick.

An 84-page document that AMF provided to Gizmodo showed subject categories in the time capsule including aerospace, mathematics, women's studies, humor and criminology.

The first four layers contain over 60,000 analog images of pages of books, photos, illustrations and documents, AMF explained. Among the included items will be a copy of The World Factbook.

When Gizmodo asked why the full list of contents was not being released, the AMF told the news outlet:

"We’re only announcing some of the content in the library right now because of the various partnerships we have. Much more content will be revealed. ...

Rather than rely on problematic curations of material, we want to include the full breadth and diversity of recorded human knowledge and culture and a record of the life and civilization of planet Earth."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; History; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; beresheet; falcon9; godsgravesglyphs; history; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; lunarlander; lunarrover; moon; science; spacex; themoon; waronterror

1 posted on 02/28/2019 8:07:03 AM PST by ETL
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To: ETL

so the evil Israelis are going to the moon while the pallies can’t build an outhouse


2 posted on 02/28/2019 8:09:13 AM PST by wny
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To: ETL

Tucked away inside Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander, currently on its way to the Moon, is a massive archive documenting humanity’s achievements.

Well, if they got it from Google 29 million pages of it will be African-Americans.


3 posted on 02/28/2019 8:13:21 AM PST by Pravious
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To: ETL
"30-million-page archive of humanity's achievements headed to the Moon"

"We don't read."


4 posted on 02/28/2019 8:15:51 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

At least we won’t have to send any updates


5 posted on 02/28/2019 8:18:56 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: wny

Put trumps election every the evil Hilda beast as the number one achievement of all time andAnd then add a section on BB Netanyahu achieving the same thing in Israel over the horrid imperialist evil forces of the left


6 posted on 02/28/2019 8:19:45 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: ETL

Does it show sliced bread?


7 posted on 02/28/2019 8:23:12 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ETL

Beresheet missed its first engine firing.

I hope they get it worked out.


8 posted on 02/28/2019 8:23:35 AM PST by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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It better represent all those achievements by the lgblt community and persons of color...especially women of color but mostly trans women of color.


9 posted on 02/28/2019 8:25:28 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: ETL

We killed more of our offspring than any civilization ever!


10 posted on 02/28/2019 8:57:05 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: NativeSon

The achievements of democrat loon, AOC:

25,000 jobs lost + billions in tax revenue (Amazon)


11 posted on 02/28/2019 9:00:09 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL
push to create a space-based archive of Earth

"The materials you borrowed are 36,000 light years overdue..."


12 posted on 02/28/2019 9:05:18 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blueunicorn6

It isn’t chopped liver.


13 posted on 02/28/2019 9:06:48 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: ETL

452,941 Women’s and Gender Studies Theses and Dissertations

Freegards


14 posted on 02/28/2019 9:10:27 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: ETL

30 Million Page Archive of FAKE NEWS

written by the elite.

For the real truth, browse Free Republic.


15 posted on 02/28/2019 9:10:36 AM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: ETL

In a thousand years, some archaeologist on the Moon will stumble across the “Sea of Tranquility Scrolls.”


16 posted on 02/28/2019 9:21:00 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ETL

Last accomplishment entry - We were really bored so we put this on the moon.


17 posted on 02/28/2019 9:35:43 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: ETL

So that’s where the aliens on twilight zones famous “monsters of maple street” episode knew how to manipulate us.


18 posted on 02/28/2019 10:26:29 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.5)
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To: ETL; BenLurkin
Thanks ETL.

19 posted on 03/02/2019 3:04:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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