When you thought that the Internet only really existed for porn and bloggers without a life (the two go hand-in-hand, don't they?) an actual interesting, smart, thought-provoking idea emerges:

http://www.keo.org/

In a nutshell, in 50, 000 years time (from next year I believe) a time capsule, that was shot into space by us, will come back to Earth. On board there is a whole bunch of stuff (the list in on the website linked), but, interestingly enough, 4-page messages from whoever submits, well, their four pages. (They say that they will be carrying 6-billion persons messages, but I don't think there is much Internet access in the Sub-Saharan, or, for that matter, Telstra in outback Australia.) It's mind-boggling to think that, if we haven't killed off the Earth, or each other, or nuked everyone back to the Stone Age, in 52007/8, give or take one assumes, someone could be reading a message, care of good ol' Clayton. And, not to get all 'emo' on anyone, but I do wonder what sort of things 'they' (because there's no guarantee that we won't have been assimilated into Hutt Space) would want to hear, or read. I'm going to have to think long and hard about my 6000 characters. I'll probably end up putting more thought and effort into this than the handful of University assignments I have due this semester. I love having my priorities right.

Clayton Northcutt.