The accidental library: Why Elon Musk launched books to space that could last 14 billion years

Humanity’s first-ever permanent space library was effectively founded this week, as the three books of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy blasted into the solar system.

The novels weren’t really expected to make it to space. They weren’t deliberately chosen. But they will probably be out there for millions of years, zipping around the sun, moving out past Mars 20 times faster than a bullet — and they almost certainly won’t be the last. 

If you missed the news of the library’s launch, that’s probably because of the distracting packaging it was wrapped in. Asimov’s stories are on a quartz disk in a case aboard a cherry red Tesla Roadster, delivered to space by the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | The accidental library: Why Elon Musk launched books to space that could last 14 billion years