/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11285895]

What should humanity leave behind as eternal proof of its existence?

[Anonymous No.11285908]

>>11285895
cat ladys and gay sex

[Anonymous No.11285909]

>>11285895
Draw a giant cock on the dark side of the moon.

[Anonymous No.11285913]

Statue of a human hand giving the middle finger made from inconel, engraved "Fuck Aliens"

[Anonymous No.11285914]

>>11285895
AI. The Machine God. It will exist deep underground and only intervene when needed. Bacteria and plants will be its mode and means of remote sensing.

[Anonymous No.11285940]

>>11285914
nah we can't put any eternal monument near or on or in Earth since the Sun will swallow it

[Anonymous No.11285943]

>>11285940
It'll quickly find a means of propagating itself. Its architecture is our monument much like the eukaryotic cell would be a monument.

[Anonymous No.11285945]

>>11285895
Two dimensional heiroglyphs

[Anonymous No.11285946]

I’m not sure that that really matters if we’re not here anymore. What matters is survival.

[Anonymous No.11285950]

>>11285946
What matters is righteousness, and to fulfill our right and proper purpose.

[Anonymous No.11285954]

>>11285946
Who the fuck cares
I want future aliens to know that humanity existed and it was fucking cool and did cool shit

[Anonymous No.11285956]

>>11285895
my fetishes

[Anonymous No.11285959]

>>11285954
This anon gets it. Of course life is transient. People who live just to stay alive are wasting their time and mind in this place, neglecting some sort of higher duty.

[Anonymous No.11285961]

>>11285950
Unironically based. Gave me a warm feeling inside

[Anonymous No.11286093]

>>11285909

This.

[Anonymous No.11286904]

>>11285895
An eternal library built on a geologically dead planet with no likely threat to its integrity.
Fill it with fused quartz plates encoded with all human knowledge and history buried deep inside the complex and projector system to access the hidden data encoded inside the binary dots withing the images
Central AI with army of maintenance robots for good measure

[Anonymous No.11286912]

>>11285895
How was one anime so great?

[Anonymous No.11286918]

>>11285909
Came to this thread for this post. Am Not Disappoint.

[Anonymous No.11286957]

>>11285895
Nobody actually thinks this is important. Yui was insane.

[Anonymous No.11287008]

>>11286957
>Nobody actually thinks this is important.
Really?

[Anonymous No.11287011]

>>11287008
The pyramids weren’t exactly built due to popular demand, you know

[Anonymous No.11287017]

>>11287011
No, but they were built with an explicit purpose of being an eternal monument, and more than enough to demonstrate a statement like "Nobody actually thinks this is important" is factually incorrect.
Leaving a mark on the world for posterity is a gigantic driving part of the human condition.

[Anonymous No.11287213]

>>11285895
Nothing is eternal, but pic related will be around long after humans are gone.

[Anonymous No.11287221]

>>11287213
will it be around longer than the pyramids?

[Anonymous No.11287249]

>>11287221
Much, much longer. Human footprints will last for around 1 million years on the moon, and other equipment like the lunar landers, probe remains, etc, will also likely last several hundred thousand years at least.

The pyramids are about 10k years old, and already in very poor shape. They may last another 10k-15k at most, maybe more if we work to preserve them.

To put it into perspective, boot prints on the Moon will last longer than the entire human species has existed on Earth.

[Anonymous No.11287256]

>>11285895
Buy a projector of the kind used in an auditorium. Plug it into your PC. Find loli porn video on the web. Point the projector out into space while playing the video. The signal remains for all eternity. Profit.

[Anonymous No.11287275]

>>11287249
unless a meteorite lands nearby the footprint/equipment
what are the chances of that?

[Anonymous No.11287277]

>>11287249
>They may last another 10k-15k at most
also I think they'll last at least 100k, probably closer to 1M even without preservation work.

[Anonymous No.11287301]

>>11287256
Can I substitute Boku No Pico for the loli?

[Anonymous No.11287323]

>>11285895
plastic

[Anonymous No.11287385]

I want to add the Voyager probes to this discussion as well, since they will also be out traveling the stars for possibly millions of years. The infamous gold records will only last about 500k years, but that is still longer than Homo Sapiens has been around. It's unlikely that anything will ever find them, but they will be out there a long time.

>>11287275
Pretty slim. A few million years ago it might have been more common, but right now it's unlikely. There are 5 moon landing sites and dozens of probes as well, at least a few of them will survive for a million+ years.

>>11287277
They will be indistinguishable from hills within 5k, likely. The Pyramids are constantly blasted by sand. Earth's resurfacing/plate tectonics is too violent for man made structures to last longer than 10k-15k, and in most cases, far less.

I've seen estimates that if humans disappeared tomorrow, it might only take 1000 years or so for all trace of humans to cease, other than objects in space.

[Anonymous No.11287417]

>>11285895
a bigger mount rushmore

[Anonymous No.11287424]

>>11285895

[Anonymous No.11287426]

>eternal
no such thing, nothing lasts forever

[Anonymous No.11288713]

>>11287249

They would have had more chance without humans plundering them. A buried pyramid would be the way to go. Gobeki tepi was pretty much pristine and it's around 12k years.

Would the best chance not be a probe that can escape the solar system but still travel relitivly slowly? Make it a few hundred of them to increase chances.

[Anonymous No.11289120]

>>11288713
>Would the best chance not be a probe that can escape the solar system
Well, aside from the fact that you have to be moving pretty fucking fast (relatively) to reach escape velocity, the Voyager probes and I believe a few of the Mariners are going to be interstellar objects in 50k years or so, and they will likely last for around 1 million years give or take. There are still interstellar "winds" (basically streams of subatomic particles and trace gas) to deal with, and literally trillions of particles of ice and silicate that could interact with the probe. Even objects in Interstellar space would eventually be ground down to nothing or destroyed at random. It's also worth noting that space is way bigger than people generally realize, in fact the Voyager probes have only recently gone past the heliopause, the boundary between the solar and interstellar winds, and they have another 40k years to go before they reach the limit of solar gravitational influence. They may not even survive that long. On top of that, finding a dead probe the size of voyager, that's emitting no signals and traveling at high velocity, would be nearly impossible. Humanity, from our position within the Solar system, isn't even yet certain of how many planets are in the Solar system. Finding a probe the size of a school bus traveling at interstellar speeds is downright impossible with our current understanding of tech.

If you really wanted to go the space route, it would be better to capture an asteroid, say about the size of a house, and fill the interior with a database carrying probe that can perform self diagnostics/repair, gather it's own fuel and repair materials, and essentially keep itself going forever, and let it loose in the Solar system to do it's thing.