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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
Here is an interesting little story I found yesterday.
{Added by edit: Apparently the site no longer exists, but I was able to retrieve the text from cache, so I cut and pasted it here. The only strange thing is that I could have sworn that the year 2010 was mentioned in the original on the site, not 2005. In my cache, it's 2005. I must be mistaken.} {Added by edit: The message has disappeared. Is this what was meant with the message being "lost soon after its appearance"?} This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 29-Sep-2005 02:39 PM This message has been edited by [omitted], 30-Sep-2005 05:38 PM This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 30-Sep-2005 10:32 PM
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Yaro Member (Idle past 6495 days) Posts: 1797 Joined: |
deadlink
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
I'm sorry, I'll check it.
Thanks.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
I've updated it.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3977 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.3 |
I guess we can't go back to the future after all.
Unless "dead link" is the message from the future... Edit: I guess it is. This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 09-29-2005 09:42 AM
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Annafan Member (Idle past 4578 days) Posts: 418 From: Belgium Joined: |
Nice joke, Parasomnium.
Now let's see who's falling for it
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
Nice joke, Parasomnium. quote:
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gene90 Member (Idle past 3822 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
At what point is the message lost?
If it survived from 2005 intact until the outbreak of the viral plague, then people would see the similarity and not make the same mistakes.
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Brad Member (Idle past 4787 days) Posts: 143 From: Portland OR, USA Joined: |
It could be convincing...but I find it hard to believe that there are no new words. It's all in plain modern english, despite the fact that it was written more then 100 years in the future(?) I would think that words would be used that we would have no idea what they mean. Maybe the aliens translated it for us. Either way...I don't plan on being alive then
Brad
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
gene90 writes: At what point is the message lost? I don't know, it doesn't say, does it? It says "very soon after it appeared on the internet". I've googled it and not found it. Maybe EvC is now the only place where the text is preserved, who knows?
gene90 writes: If it survived from 2005 intact until the outbreak of the viral plague, then people would see the similarity and not make the same mistakes. First, from what I read in the message, I gather that after it was lost, it was transmitted as a sort of folklore, an urban legend if you will. Some details may have been lost to them. Second, they would have to know what mistakes were made. If they did everything the same, then history might repeat itself, so something would have to be done differently. But what exactly? Apparently they died before they could think of anything and let us know in their message. It's up to us, I'm afraid.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
Brad writes: Maybe the aliens translated it for us. Probably. They wouldn't want to rely on only one person who could read the language of the future, would they?
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Heathen Member (Idle past 1283 days) Posts: 1067 From: Brizzle Joined: |
Sounds like a clever way to plug a new movie to me...
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
Creavolution writes: Sounds like a clever way to plug a new movie to me... Could well be, Crea. But then, a movie might also be a very effective way of making the message heard...
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Heathen Member (Idle past 1283 days) Posts: 1067 From: Brizzle Joined: |
*twilight zone noise*
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 476 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
Is that all of it?
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