Jimmy writes:
Apparently some folks in France are sending up a satellite with a time capsule aboard, that'll orbit the earth for fifty-thousand years before coming back down for future generations to find. The cool part is, everyone's invited to leave their own message (6,000 characters or less) for posterity. I was going to send you the permalink from my blog with my commentary but it doesn't seem to be working – but here's my personal message to the folks of the future, I thought you might get a kick out of it:
Dear Futurefolk,
I sincerely hope that this message is being read by a human, as opposed to a dirty, horseback-riding, talking ape. That said, I'd like to tell you that I'm utterly amazed anyone managed to make it out of the 21st century. What with the wars, plagues, global warming and all the scary implications of the genetic and technological innovations of recent years, for anyone to have made it past the year 2020 was quite a trick and I applaud you on your hardiness. You're a very resourceful crew, indeed.
I suppose someone either managed to rally the earth's people and bring about some social epiphany, ushering in a new era of peace and enlightenment for mankind or – more likely – you're a world of ultra-badass motorcycling mutants with mohawks and shotguns who've managed to shrewdly survive by hoarding gas, killing those weaker than yourselves and drinking your own urine for sustenence. Hey, either way – good for you!
By the way, how are the cockroaches?
Yours truly,
Jimmy Olsen – Your Simple, Barbaric Ancestor
What about the Singularity, Jimmy? Maybe they're a bunch of disembodied consciounesses embedded in a Dyson Sphere that wraps around the entire Solar System!
(Thanks, Jimmy!)
