Discussion Page - Idea 89

#89: Tellurium-128

Mankind is here, what a achievement!

What will be of us in a thousand years? five thousand? a billion years into the future?

This idea proposes that we build a memorial to celebrate our journey. It would be to manufacture an object of Tellurium-128, an isotope so stable, but so stable, that its half-life is about a trillion times the current age of the universe.

What information should this object convey? Our genetic makeup, voyager's golden disk like messages? Well that would take a lot of thinking.  

BANNER IMAGE CREDITS: NASA, ESA, Harald Ebeling (University of Hawaii at Manoa) & Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM)