The Arch Mission Foundation created the Lunar Library, a 30-million-page long compendium of humanity’s greatest cultural offerings, encoded it on a specially designed disc meant to last a billion years, and sent it to the moon to keep it safe.
When alien space travelers encounter our lifeless planet in a billion years, I rejoice in the knowledge that they, too, will know the delight of funny cat videos.
assuming nobody ever nukes the moon I guess that’s as good a place as any for backup copies of all out cat videos.
I think I might have planted a sign over it.
If the aliens are canids, they will view the disc, wag their tails and agree “They are all dead. As it should be.” Then they will mark the spot and obediently return to their home planet for din-din.
But wouldn’t it make more sense to put it on an Outer Planet instead? Our sun will burn up the earth and moon in about 5 billion years when global warming REALLY becomes real.