Re:Discernability (Score 1)

The creators have thought of the problem you point out, and dealt with it. At the outer rim of the 10K Rosetta disk will be human-readable words, in all the various languages, spiralling inward and shrinking as they do so. By extension, a bright mind encountering one of these disks a thousand years from now should be able to figure out that if they magnify the center part, the yet smaller text will be visible. The clear top half of the disk is, effectively, a magnifying glass, to better get the point across. Yes, the data _could_ be stored digitally. But which format can you _guarantee_ to survive 10K years? And who is to guarantee that there will be power sources running at the correct voltage? At least English/Yiddish/Latin/whatever have survived a few hundred years. No digital format has yet managed to survive more than a few decades. It won't sit in a capsule or clean room; they'll make many of them and let them pass down through families, like a Family Bible or whatnot. There is little hole in the center where one can insert a scroll on which one records each owner's name. I like the little Rosetta disks!