> > > Apparently, this is a project wherein a satellite will be loaded up with stuff from our time and shot out into the cosmos set to return to earth in 50,000 years. The website they have offers you the chance to write a message for those still living in the year 52010.
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> > I'm going to remain optimistic about life extension technologies progressing nicely in the next few decades. So I'll still be alive in 50,000 years - just not in my original body and probably not on Earth.
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> Which begs the questions:
> Will you return to Earth at that time to see the satellite come back down and see what they're reactions are?
> You could be a big hero by being the only one able to read the language!
> -Rifty

I wouldn't need to return to Earth - I could just have the complete virtual experience automatically downloaded across the galaxy to my brain, or whatever technology is in use at the time.

Unless there's a large-scale disaster that takes our civilization to the brink of extinction (and perhaps not even then), I don't think we'll ever lose significant knowledge of how to read languages, from this point on. Sure, paper/discs/other storage media eventually deteriorate, but faster than they do we are making more and more copies of information in updated media formats, globally.