What information has survived the longest? Perhaps the information encoded in DNA. But, to survive in harsh environments with the constant threat of destruction, new copies are made continually within cell nuclei.

Which leads to my suggestion. Maybe we don't just want our data preserved for millenia, we want it made better! Thus we should initiate a process of artificial intelligence, seeded by our own ideas but with freedom to innovate in years to come. Then, it can adapt in order to communicate with any future would-be readers.

Well, some clay tablets have survived intact and readable for thousands of years. (Cuneiform)
I suspect ceramics are less likely to react chemically with any given environment.

Hmm, good point. I will try that.

I write watchdog routines to kill my programs using null pointers, in case of misbehavior. My latest creation,

*(char **)0 = "description of an error condition";

This causes the prog to dump a core, letting me analyze the stack and find deadlocks, etc.

Should this be "we" definitely use, and that powers "our" cities? Or the more exciting possibility, that you exist outside the framework of normal life?

or in bourne shell, any value of LANGUAGE

Awesome. :)
May you never suffer the injustice of a more poorly conceived operating system.

Death Star, Millenium Falcon, advanced medicine, advanced robotics, faster than light travel... Certainly those concepts and technologies at least imply a great deal of scientific developmental background.

I recommend watching at least the first 5-10 minutes of the talk Herrmann gives, in the video on the linked page. He addresses all of the concerns I've seen in comments here.

As projects grow, to me the question is not whether things should be changed, but how they should change.

I think this also helps answer the other article posted recently, "Are there any real inventors left?" Yes there are.

This is one of the coolest things ever.

This post does the same thing. "Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds" is a deliberately attention-getting title, and is not very accurate. A better title might be just "'Flame' And Angry Birds Written In Same Language"

Nice of China to notify the world of its intent. Protesting their intent will be fruitless; as the (Wikipedia) article points out, it's not a legitimate territorial claim, only a rough designation of China's desire. Any bickering must be done over specific points of conflict that arise from these intentions.

Yes, the abstract given on your front page is somewhat informative; I have a complaint, though, because I did not want to read such vulgar statements of intent regarding drunk women. If possible please give us readers the option of avoiding such content by leaving it out of the main-page abstract. Sorry to be a pain, I hope you understand.