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    What Is This?

    Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation. Or maybe one of those crazy LED art projects in a skyscraper. It's better than all that, put together.


    What you are seeing here is the Rosetta Disk: 13,500 pages of data—in 1,500 languages—etched on a nickel. To see each page individually you'll need a 500x microscope. [Rosetta Project via Long Now Foundation via BBG]


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