50,000 Years From Home....
I recently discovered the Keo project. An orbiting sattelite is set to be launched to orbit
the Earth for 50,000 years before deorbiting and carrying 6 billion messages from
people alive on Earth now, today to those in the far distant future.
This is what I had to say:
My name is Daniel Allan Stafford. I am a resident of the United States of America,
which may or may not mean anything to whomever may read this. Given such a
distant future time, I have no idea if my language nor any remnant of the world
as I know it will exist in your time.
I would like to tell you a little bit about who we are now. We're people who try to
live through our intellect but still get caught up in our feelings. We're people who
love and hurt and laugh and cry and try to ponder out the knowledge of what our
existence actually consists of and is for.
We make mistakes, and there are those among us who care not a tiny bit for others
or the future, that just try to gather as much glory and comfort as they can to themselves
while they are alive.
We also have people who work very hard to make this world a better place both while
they are here and after they leave it behind through the great unknown of physical
death.
We have those who just try to survive as best they can without doing much else.
I can tell you this: The times we live in now are fair in the sense of beautiful in many ways.
So many things are new. We're discovering what makes our bodies be what they are,
what space is and how to live there, how to coexist without fighting as much as we can.
We have yet to see people living beyond the skies of Earth, but I expect this soon.
My greatest hope is that we can learn to live in harmony and take that beyond Humanities'
cradle, the earth. That we can make life blossom througout the universe and allow that
life to be happy for all those who follow us through our efforts.
If we succeeed, then you will remember us because of what we left to you through our
efforts and hard work.
I'm in the middle of an average life span in these times, thirty eight years old.
In your time, that may still be someone fairly young. I know one thing, the times
I have lived in, I have loved dearly, as well as those around me.
If you are lucky, you will have a chance to know us far better than we know our forebears,
news of which we must dig out from the Earth's bones and decipher in educated
guesses and art that has no translations ready to hand to explain it's meaning.
There is much beauty in the arts and songs we have with us now, as well as great sadnesses.
We live in a world rich with dreams and memories, and most of all, hopes for what we
can leave to you. I can't imagine what your world must be like, surely things that
technology does by then must be like magic to someone like me, a ghost from your
distant past. How I wish I could see what you, our distant children, have become.
For myself, I wish you love, joy, and happiness. I hope you can consider yourselves
to live in times of beauty and happiness, achievement and success. Carry on for us.
You are the hopes of our tomorrows, as we are the ghosts of your yesterdays.
I write poetry in my time, and this is my poem about what is truly timeless:
Timeless:
Do you feel the warmth of the sun shining on your face?
Do you hear the gentle wash of the ocean wave?
Do you see the adoration in a new mother's face?
Do you see the flowers begin to bloom in spring?
Do you envision the soaring hawk?
Do you see memories of your own youth?
Do you see the stars that glitter at night?
Do you see the old man's wistful eyes longing for old times?
Do you remember a friend that moved away?
Do you read a poem of well-written words?
Do you hear the melody of a favorite song?
Do you feel the love I hold for you?
Regardless of whether or not I should turn to dust,
There is a graceful thing that I trust.
Forever and a day,
I shall remember a bright shining ray,
Hope that you give to me,
Continuity with eternity,
Because of memories and love I share with you,
When your time comes you'll know what to do.
Give your love freely,
Because that's what timeless is, really.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C)2000
Author's Comments: This, to me, is wisdom. There are some moments that hold a beauty that
will never fade. The moment we give our love to another is one of them. I don't think this
ever will change, regardless of how briefly or long they remain near us in person, they
expand our hearts and souls.
By: Daniel A. Stafford
Author's Comments
I think this is very self-explanatory
Comments
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| Daniel A. Stafford | aqmstaffo@mailbag.com |
| 8/1/2000 3:58:46 AM |
| Anyone interested in participating should contact: http://www.keo.org |
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| Balalaika | Balalaika@hotmail.com | http://www.san-pietroburgo.info/ | 12/29/2004 10:55:40 AM |
| Tankyou all people from Russia with love! http://www.san-pietroburgo.info/ |
| Janine Daniel | janine@spinnys.com | www.spinnys.com | 8/3/2005 5:24:43 AM |
Hi Dan,
I was surprised when I found I haven't commented on this before although I wasn't surprised it's your most viewed one.
This reminded me of when I put my name down for the Mars mission.
I think this's awesome and I really truely hope that it gets read 50,000 years from now. |
