The Arch Lunar Library™ is designed to preserve the records of our civilization for billions of years. Let’s discover what’s inside this tiny but 30 million page backup of civilization…
It contains various topics, cultures, nations, languages, genres, time periods, in short, everything you can think of about our world; “Moon Library” with 30 million pages, It was sent to the Moon with Israel’s “Beresheet” spacecraft in April 2019.
future generations, the history of humanity and ensuring that it never loses its civilization This library was designed to last for more than 6 billion years. If you put on your astronaut clothes, let’s take a journey into space.
Imagine a library that is both small and giant…
It looks like a 120mm DVD and only 100 grams The library is located inside a nanotechnology device and consists of 25 nickel disks, each 40 microns thick. First 4 layers; consisting of photographs, books, illustrations and documents; It contains more than 60 thousand analog images.
Since all this content would have no meaning if this object did not survive, a supercomputer called “Nanofiche” was created. a robust data recording technology developed. 10 times more heat than on the Moon, data can survive without being damaged.
Grab your microscopes, we’re delving deeper into the library.
The first layer contains 1,500 pages of text and images, as well as holographic logos and texts. It can be read with an optical microscope with x100 magnification or a magnifying glass. Each of the next 3 layers at x1000 magnification 20 thousand pages of text and each letter is the size of a bacterium!
In fact, there are pages teaching more than 1 million concepts and corresponding words in languages, as well as 1.5 billion example translations and translations. Guide containing 5 thousand languages is available. What else is this we are talking about? The entire English version of Wikipedia is also included on this disc. Yes, all this information; engraved on 25 discs, each only 40 microns across!
Other data in the library:
- Artists and bands such as Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, The Who 25 thousand songs
- Details of David Copperfield’s illusions
- Pink Floyd’s iconic album cover Dark Side of the Moon image
- holy religious books
- Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings novels
The conditions of people in the distant future were also taken into consideration.
Since people in the future will not have a DVD player and will not be able to speak any languages currently in use, the Lunar Library’s thumbnails of books and other documents describing human language and instructions engraved.
“How to read the library?” After reading the instructions, the introductory part named can be read under a simple microscope. to the rest of the library they will be able to access easily. Do you think such a thing would really be possible in the distant future? Even if it doesn’t happen, the possibility is very exciting!
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