The Rosetta Disk is the physical companion of the Rosetta Digital Language Archive, and a prototype of one facet of The Long Now Foundation's 10,000-Year Library. The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history.[1]
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The Rosetta Disk is featured in Crypt of Civilization.
It was introduced in 4 days after people when some attempts to preserve man's legacy race against time by standing still like the Rosetta Disk, a CD-sized object that holds the key to preserving mankind's written languages. The episode gave information that it was created in 2008 by an organization called the Long Now Foundation and it is etched with micro sized writings. When it magnified 1,000 times, it reveals 13,000 pages of text from vocabulary lists to Bible verses in more than 1,500 human languages. It was named after the Rosetta Stone, an ancient artifact that enabled researchers to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics, and copies of the Rosetta Disk were sent to safe havens around the world including the Smithsonian Institution where thousands of other treasures are stored. After people, the lights have gone out and time starts ticking for the Rosetta Disk.
The Smithsonian Institution collapse, causing it to destroy the treasures.
In 2,000 years after people, the copies of the Rosetta Disk still exist. Each disk was made of nickel, a metal that forms much of the core of the Earth. While nickel resists corrosion, the text of the disks are still vulnerable to the corruption of time. Laura Welcher stated that the disk accumulate a kind of microscopic goo over time that is whatever ambient in the air that lands on the disc making it fairly quick to have the material to build up. Its fate is then revealed that another great deal of material is building up around one of the Rosetta Disks, being the Smithsonian Institution itself as the structure crumbles destroying various treasures, including the Rosetta Disk.
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