Blog Post of the Week #7: Message to the Future!

Okay, to start things off, I would like to say that I did not forget about the blog. It was just a combination of work & laziness that prevented me from uploading anything in the past little while. Now I realized this last Wednesday so I decided that I would wait until Monday and get back on track, starting with a written post. Now as you will know, that failed, I was swamped with writing for other projects and classes so I did not have the time to upload a post. So here we are today!

Now a little info:

While I was doing a bit of research for a future (hahaha) blog post, I stumbled upon a website called KEO, named after something like the most commonly used sounds in the english, or perhaps even all languages. Anyways, a link to their website can be found Click here to send your message to the future!

I've also included a link at the bottom of this post in case you would rather read this first and don't want to scroll back up lol.

So, what is this website about? Well, they plan on launching a satellite into space, about 1500 kilometres away from the Earth I believe, which will fall back to the Earth in 50,000 years! What this satellite will contain, is messages from everyone who contributed encoded on special DVD's which will of course not degrade. There will also be a diamond with the blood of a human on it or in it and human DNA engraved on the face of one of the sides, something like that. You can find all the information in at their website, that's not the point. Anyways, there is a deadline for the message and anyone can contribute, so do it!

The point of this blog post today is to share with you the message that I had written. Now, I wrote this message extremely quickly, and didn't have much of a chance to edit it, so I sent it to the future exactly how it is shown here well without some words missing of course (private information, I won't exactly care about it 50,000 years from now, but today, I do!)

Anyways, here is the message that whatever inhabits this Earth 50,000 years from now will be reading.

"Hello to the future, or in your case, the present. My name is Dillon (private) Wheeler, an inhabitant of Earth. I was born in the year (private).

I do not know who will be reading this, nor if you are human or not. What I can tell you is that I am human, the language I speak is English and I am from Canada. It is doubtful the English language or even the country of Canada will exist by the time you read this.

My message, that I wanted to say was I envy you. I envy you without knowing you. The time that you are reading this, your civilization will be so much more advanced than mine, you should have things like virtual realities, space-travel on a wide scale and possibly even aliens. Maybe you even are aliens, I don't know?

What would be scary is if whoever gets this message is a direct, well not direct, but a descendant of mine. I have a 6000 character limit for this message and I have wrote only close to 1000 characters. Im sure I will be able to come up with more. Well you are from the future, so I guess I should tell you something like a day in the life and also a little more about me, Dillon (private) Wheeler?

Well here goes, I am a caucasian/white male, I go to (private) university in Canada, I am interested in writing, and would like to be a successful novelist. That's enough about who I am, for a day in the life, I guess, it would go something like, I wake up from my bed, take the Light Rail Transit, that is an electric train, to my university campus, go to those classes, use my laptop computer to type my notes on, and when that is over talk to friends, finish homework, etc, probably things that you would all do.

Now, another few things I am really interested in are philosophy and science. My greatest dream is to visit outer space, preferably a planet, such a Mars, the fourth planet from our sun. Another thing I have been wondering about is time.

What is time? In your past, my present, time is virtually unknown to us, we know it is not linear but we don't understand it. We don't know if time travel is truly possible or not. Hopefully you have the answers, and you can travel back in time to visit me, that would be awesome. Back to time though, since we know that time is not linear then, correct me if I am mistaken here, oh wait, you can't! hahaha.... or can you?

Anyways, if time is not linear, then does that not mean that as soon as I send this message, you will be able to and have read it? Because time not being linear, that means that SOMEDAY you WILL read this message, and if time does not follow a linear path, then that also means that you have ALREADY read this message, so could you not be influencing what I am saying here? Trippy stuff.

Well, I am halfway through the length of the message that I am allowed to write and send to you, I don't know what else to say, I guess cherish life and all it's beauty, for someday it may be gone. Hopefully that day is not a day in which you currently live, but far into the future.

Oh yeah, I live in (private), Canada, the coordinates are (private) and (Private) is located near the (private) of the province, at an elevation of (private) metres or (private) feet. The sole reason for telling you this information is that I plan to have my body, and at the very least my head or brain frozen.

Therefore, If I am frozen and forgotten about, then one day perhaps (if you have the technology) you could find my storage container, unfreeze me and bring me back to life, sure it's unlikely, but a man can dream! It would be a nice gesture if you could! Also, if you can't then leave me be until even farther into the future. I want to come back!

Anyways, I had one question for you, do you ever die? more specifically, do you die of old age or is age no longer a problem for you? In my time, we live for only a very short amount of time, the global average is roughly 66 years, my countries average is around 80 years. That is hardly enough time to see the world and more importantly the universe.

So to conclude this message, I will borrow a quote from one of the greats, and that is, "Live long and Prosper." But in truth, I hope this message was semi-informative or at the very least entertaining and one you could hold on to forever, for it is from somebody you will never see, hear, feel, know, anything. I will be long, long, long gone before this every arrives on your doorstep. So cherish it! :)

Thank you,
Dillon (Private) Wheeler

P.S Read my books, if thats possible. They will be great. Hopefully you also understand english, if not then this message was completely useless. Farewell my future people!"


Well there you have it, my message to the future, out there for everyone!

Now as I said earlier, there is a deadline on submissions, so if you want your letter to be sent to the future, it is best to do it sooner rather than later.

Again, here is the website where you can find more information and submit your message to the future! www.keo.org

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler