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DingusKhan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We could send them to the end of the galaxy to compile an encyclopedia of all human knowledge but they’d secretly be there to start the next iteration of civilization through the foolproof strategy of not doing much and just letting the pre-calculated history take its course.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or we could just fly around in space on a religious drug trip until we find a planet with some worms that make some freaken killer drugs.

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    • DarkMessiah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds like it would cause a major succession crisis and a galaxy-wide jihad.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We will need one against those sentient mitosis using beings from another dimension. The Kinnison bloodline won’t be enough!

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hail Seldon

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  • neonred@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You just gave Hari an idea…

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• Cyclist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a couple of books that do this: How to Invent Everything, and How Rebuild Civilization.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clock of the long now

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know why they put just one zero in front of years. That just makes the clock slightly longer, and it’s still insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

    02023 in years only is good until 99999, then you’d need to prepend another zero.

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    • Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a constant symbolic reminder, and still a 10X scope increase.

      If you want to be pedantic about making “the clock slightly longer”, you might as well say “I don’t see why they don’t write their dates out in base 62. Then they could make the clock shorter by writing wD instead of 2023”. The point is that everyone who sees “02023” can have a bit of an “oh shit” moment where they instantly understand what it means.

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