A Monument to the Current Era of Humanity

[Locke]

Commemorated by Nixon. How grim.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Actually, he was correct with 'then'. Grammar police fails are better than grammar fails.

And a fail at incorrectly trying to bust a grammar nazi fail who was correctly busting a grammar fail has to be the best fail of all. You sir, fail miserably on this one.

[CaptainCrunch]

Seriously, can we stop with the whole grammer nazi bullspit for a while. Who really gives a spit, I'm not writing a paper for the Harvard review, I'm not getting graded on this and I'm not getting paid on a per post basis.

It comes across as moronic if your sitting there complaining about sentence structure etc on a forum.

Plus, how do you know that some of the posters that are firing things up here aren't english as a second language and you've just made them feel like a moron.

Hang your head in shame.

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Sliver

And a fail at incorrectly trying to bust a grammar nazi fail who was correctly busting a grammar fail has to be the best fail of all. You sir, fail miserably on this one.

Hey now! I caught it in an edit. I'll just... be going... outside...

[photon]

Just make a super-robust computer that's designed to last for as long as you can make it last, and dump a copy of the Internet on it.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by photon

Just make a super-robust computer that's designed to last for as long as you can make it last, and dump a copy of the Internet on it.

The world's greatest porno machine. I like it.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

This sounds self-aggrandizing to me. To construct a monument to ourselves, for the expressed purpose of ensuring that future generations remember our awesomeness? I don't really think that this is a message that I—as a member of this current generation—would want immortalized for all time.

I suppose it is fitting, though. I mean, there are few things that encapsulate the spirit of the age better than "Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!"

You could word it like that to belittle the idea, I suppose. The spirit I think of it in would be a gift to future generations. The fun part in the present time would be to exercise the height of our technology, creativity and artistic abilities. It would be great to imagine the world coming together (in this thought exercise) to build something wonderful instead of the usual stuff we devote our energy to on a daily basis like war, greed and navel gazing at old irrelevant books.

For example, instead of being a buzzkillington, your idea could have been something like this:

I wouldn't want to build something self-aggrandizing, so I would like to show the best side of humanity with this. Therefore instead of trashing this idea like a complete prick I would want to do X, Y or Z.

[moncton golden flames]

we're already leaving our massive landfills for the future. if anything accurately describes our current way of life, it is how wasteful and inconsiderate we are for future generations.

[Weirdness]

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Weirdness

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Wow, I'd merely thank you for it, but that's still one of my favorite sayings.

That and the modern version by Oppenheimer

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Don't worry guys,
Jeff Bezos is already on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now

[Lobotroth]

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Don't worry guys,
Jeff Bezos is already on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now

That's pretty cool.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Seriously, can we stop with the whole grammer nazi bullspit for a while. Who really gives a spit, I'm not writing a paper for the Harvard review, I'm not getting graded on this and I'm not getting paid on a per post basis.

It comes across as moronic if your sitting there complaining about sentence structure etc on a forum.

Plus, how do you know that some of the posters that are firing things up here aren't english as a second language and you've just made them feel like a moron.

Hang your head in shame.

but but......then how do we make ourselves feel better than a log in name we have never met?..........how?

[BloodFetish]

[Rathji]

I am going to say that we already have created a monument as a society that will last pretty much forever.

The internet.

Ok, not exactly, but most of what we create here will be perfectly preserved and available for generations to come. If anyone wants to know anything about our society, there is no better place to see it than online.

[Lt.Spears]

This thread was brought to you by thoughts brought on from Mass Effect

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by photon

Just make a super-robust computer that's designed to last for as long as you can make it last, and dump a copy of the Internet on it.

or just make Earth itself a massive super computer, and have it spit out "42" as the answer to any question posed to it

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by BloodFetish

That's no moon...

[Locke]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

The world's greatest porno machine. I like it.

Its actually a rather apropos statement of our generation I think.