07/08/2023
Lunar Codex lodged in Moon
Do you want to preserve your works in the future that represent the expression of the culture ours(yours)?
HEADS UP, Readers! Presenting the Lunar Codex project, the repository of human creativity in shuttling the material to the lunar surface steered by Samuel Peralta, a Canadian physicist and art collector, an off-world archive was referred to as a message in a bottle sent to future generations to serve as a reminder that people still created beautiful things despite the war, pandemics, and economic disasters.
This portrait constructed from Lego bricks, woodcuts printed on Ukrainian soil, and a collection of poetry from every continent of many thousands of works as a permanent record, using the Lunar Codex to converted to digital form and kept on memory cards or being laser-etched on NanoFiche, a modern upgrade to film-based microfiche.
In 300,000 collected from artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians from 157 countries, the images, objects, magazines, books, podcasts, movies, and music are divided into four capsules. The first, referred to as the Orion collection, was launched on the Orion spacecraft as part of NASA Artemis 1 mission last year and has already completed one orbit of the moon. The Lunar Codex capsules will go to several locales on the moon in the forthcoming months, including craters near the moon's south pole and a straight known as Sinus Viscositatis.
According to, The Guardian site, Peralta denotes on the develops website: “Our hope is that future travelers who find these time capsules will discover some of the richness of our world today … It speaks to the idea that, despite wars and pandemics and climate upheaval, humankind found time to dream, time to create art.” (Visit to Peralta project site: https://www.lunarcodex.com/story)
—Syngoat
Photo credits to The Guardian and Lunar Codex website
Reference:
[1] Sample, I. (2023, August 1). Lunar Codex: digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/01/lunar-codex-30000-digitised-works-of-human-creativity-to-be-put-on-moon
[2] Choudhury, R. (2023, August 5). 30,000 artists’ digitized works will be sent to the moon via Lunar Codex. Interesting Engineering. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/30000-artists-digitized-works-will-be-sent-to-the-moon