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When you engrave stuff onto platinum plates or whatever, and stick them on a space ship or on the moon or in a cave on top of Everest or something.
You start off with logic, then derive maths, physics, chemistry, biology, etc., until you have enough information to communicate with any suitably sophisticated being (obviously not STWers). In theory they're for aliens to one day read, or us if we evolve so much we wouldn't be able to communicate with the us from the past.
Plaques.
Info [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque ]here. [/url]
The next ones will just have the URL of this place. 😀
Sort of.. Maybe what I'm thinking of doesn't actually exist 😕
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Do you mean this, the Pioneer Plaque?
What you might be thinking of is a time capsule.
No, what I'm thinking of would be at least several pages long. To do with Astrolinguistics.
So you start off with shapes and such, and derive logic. Then use that to derive maths, then physics, then chemistry, and so on, until you can communicate basically.
It's like a futuristic Rosetta Stone.
The next ones will just have the URL of this place
Surely that's relying on the database not being hacked again by the script kiddies?
Lincos is the Lingua Cosmica developed to communicate with Aliens - based on logical premises and then maths and science.
Or do you mean a codex? Which is really an old fashioned word for a book (to distinguish from a scroll) but has come to mean a sort of book of everything , the bible was one of the first manuscripts to adopt codex..
No, what I'm thinking of would be at least several pages long. To do with Astrolinguistics.
So you start off with shapes and such, and derive logic. Then use that to derive maths, then physics, then chemistry, and so on, until you can communicate basically.
I believe you're thinking of the film "Contact" with Jodie Foster. 😉
Time capsule
RealMan, the Pioneer Plaque does what you describe.
V'Ger, V'Ger, V'Ger!
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I do not think you can derive maths from logic, or anything.. CharlieMungus to the thread please.
Surely logic leads straight into things like set and group theory, which then leads on to pretty much everything - addition, multiplication, etc. etc. Deriving everything from first principals, etc.
I think Lincos is the closest to what I wanted, cheers toys. If the pioneer plaque does do any of that, have has anyone got any pictures of it? Cause if it really is just what's up there ^^^ then it's not what I was thinking of.