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- wittyname, on 10/10/2007, -5/+99Built in 1980? Stonehenge comparison? Get back to me in 2000 years.
- Auraness, on 10/10/2007, -9/+87I guess French isn't important enough to be on the tablet.
- UPGR4Y3DD, on 10/10/2007, -3/+74"Dammit, Uncle Steve just gave me this gift card for the Elberton Granite Finishing Company. What the heck am I going to use this for? Wait a sec...!"
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -3/+61Interesting... is this like, advice/suggestions for the future? lol
And it's also kind of like a modern day Rosetta Stone, for the future to one day find?
"Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties."
Some of these are actually really good advice. Too bad we don't follow that ideal more often. - Animal, on 10/10/2007, -6/+57And who decided that 500 million is the best number anyway?
Anyway this is a nice brief somewhat poetic yet vague and ambiguous message for the future to misinterpret and fight wars over. - sirvincent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+49Now I want to put a bunch of ***** on some rocks and let people in the future read it.
"It looks like we've found some sort of...rock. It has writing on it!"
"Well, what does it say?"
"It says...'im in ur future wastin ur time' "
"What the *****?" - mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -5/+53Uh.. the population was more than 500,000,000 in 1980. I guess they wanted us to kill a few billion people?
- yakito, on 10/10/2007, -4/+43I wonder how much they paid for that
- reddikilowatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37Farnsworth: I've invented a universal translator. Unfortunately it only translates into useless gibberish.
Fry (to microphone): Hello.
Translator: Bonjour!
Farnsworth: Worthless piece of junk! - littlebylittle, on 10/10/2007, -43/+70Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature?
That's an awful lot of killin' needed for this to be the case. What the hell is up with this 100 ton piece of garbage? - Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -13/+40French is the language of the French.
That's why it isn't important. - shaun1018, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19too much.
- rulezgetbent, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20everything asked in the title/description is answered in the article...
- greatsage, on 10/10/2007, -1/+171980? I seriously doubt we can truly decipher a message that ancient...
- bharbhar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18it says some good stuff..
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Yet you still find time to flame...
- OHaloThar, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20Damn straight it isn't.
- mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I'm pretty sure future archaeologists wont be using the imperial system.
- Calypsoaf, on 10/10/2007, -16/+30I think you guys missed the major point of these stones.
They are not a message to us, but rather a message to the future to learn from our current mistakes. - mindracer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17So it doesnt exist for hundreds of years, doesnt mean we cant build new monuments, things that have to be extravagant and sponsored by Coca-Cola. I'm actually impressed to see this in the USA.. I thought any other language than english was being outlawed down there.
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I think this is here just so that when we forget how it was made after a few centuries, people can examine it in all the wrong ways and conclude all sorts of stuff about how their ancient ancestors arranged the stones in such and such an order because such and such a planet will be at its perigee on such and such a day.
- spearce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13First rule of enacting monuments that will stand for a few hundred years: proof read.
- resplence, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I thought he wanted to be an artist.
- littlebylittle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Except that this has nothing to do with actual Science. First of all a km² is a man-made dimension. Secondly, what scientific law states that "perfect harmony" is 1.6180339887 people per km² of land?
Not that what we currently know based on science is everything, but come on. - Keach, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Funny, that's exactly what Hitler wanted to do.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12# Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
# Unite humanity with a living new language.
Improve diversity -and- unite humanity? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Tell that to the billions slaughtered in a few thousand years time because someone discovers it and makes a religion based on it.
- mediaphile, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10What the ***** does that have to do with this monument?
- geneticlemon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13Obviously, this is a map to Caprica. /withdrawal
- Area51mafia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I miss Art Bell. :(
Art Bell > George Noory - chronusmcgee, on 10/10/2007, -9/+17Keeping the population under 500M? Sounds like your plain vanilla Utopian nightmare. The other rules are not innocuous either.
1) Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. (estimated world population in 2007: 6,602,224,175)
Lotta killing needed for this to become true. Some Utopia.
2) Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
Infanticide or Eugenics anyone? Forced hard labor and sudden death survival training mandatory.
3) Unite humanity with a living new language.
Everyone who can't understand me walk to the furnace please.
4) Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
Atheists need only apply? All others will go to the Gulag, but this time only stone soup will be served.
5) Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
All the other points will not be doable unless the interpretation of the words fair and just are altered somewhat.
6) Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
We got that, and it doesn't exactly work now does it?
7) Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Aren't these laws petty and conflicting. And exactly how much money did you waste putting up this monument anyways?
8) Balance personal rights with social duties.
The 500M earmarked for survival will get all of the rights, while all of the others with just get the duties.
9) Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
Pffftt... Hard to describe this bit of hogwash. Speaking of hogs, exactly who's or what idea of beauty are we talking about? A baby warthog probably thinks his mommy is the prettiest thing in the world. There are plenty of super models with rather ugly boyfriends out there. And what the heck is harmony with the infinite? A mathematical impossibility actually.
10) Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.
Be not a Nihilistic Utopian with pan holocaustic beliefs who will surely kill everything that comes close to your pot farm.... - burkay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I love it when people know that they just said something stupid and accept the consequences.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+91.6180... is the golden ratio. Did you think he was actually being serious?
- ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8But do you realize that there has to be a limit?
- Twelvevolts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You love finding stupid ***** and you spend a lot of time somewhere else - perfect really.
- Keach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Who would "be in charge" of imposing such a limit? Be afraid of whoever "rises to the task."
- Memnochxx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7How about Human Rights and not being a psychopath?
- macguy815, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Who gets to decide when they haven proven themselves fit and capable?
- swizzcheez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Yeah, but does it blend? Please, please, PLEASE let this blend. I'd hate for that load of tripe to be the legacy left by our little piece of civilization.
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Oh, you haven't read an Indian History textbook have you? There's 'unity in diversity' splattered across every other page about modern India. Honest.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7That's an awful lot of killin' needed
- don't worry; it will go back to normal after the oil and fresh water run out
until then though keep pumping out those babies and expect no consequences
sorry - Lane5slacker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Don't be silly, The Stone Cutters already rule everything.
- LucidHawk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's an occult icon designed for the Illuminati. There's a book or two about it.
For anyone who's studied conspiracies of the elite you should recognize the "500,000,000 depopulation ideal" and the "world court".
At the minimum. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5clearly you are a douche
- aquahelix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Forbidding condoms doesn't cause the population to go down. How about make condoms and birth control completely free to everyone? How about sex education for everyone? The message of those stones is that we need to take responsibility for our actions. Rampant reproduction is selfish, and no longer acceptable or environmentally sustainable.
- mos6507, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Global warming and peak oil will see to that.
- Darthypoo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Those rules are awful. This one "Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity" essentially advocates for Eugenics, It's all garbage.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6You know American culture and European culture is very similar.
- rockrapdude, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10Actually by using a little bit of Wikipedia, you can calculate how many people there need to be alive for be perfectly in harmony with nature. Land area of the earth is (according to Wikipedia[I'm cheap and lazy ain't I ?]) 148,939,100 km². Now taking the golden ratio (which is 1.6180339887, according to Wikipedia) and multiplying it with the land area of earth you get about 240,988,526. That's how much people should be alive to be in harmony with nature.
- Keach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Are you a part of mankind? Or maybe not?
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