Photo time capsule to last ‘billions of years’ in space
Designed to last billions of years, photo disc contains 100 black and white images.
(Credit: Creative Time )
“When humanity disappears, a ring of dead spacecraft will remain as evidence of our existence.”
That comforting thought is how nonprofit arts group Creative Time introduces a project by multimedia artist Trevor Paglen to put a photo time capsule in space, where it will orbit our planet for thousands of years, perhaps long after we’ve blown each other up or otherwise expired.
The Last Pictures is a gold-plated archival disc that contains 100 photos micro-etched in silicon in bitmap…
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