What is this? It's the Rosetta Disk, with 13,500 pages of data describing 1,500 languages etched onto a tiny nickel data chip. To see an individual page, you'd need a 500x microscope. Thanks to Gizmodo for yet another fascinating tidbit (and I do mean tidbit).
According to The Rosetta Project, "Fifty to ninety percent of the world's languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation."
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I can't read it...send it back! Seriously, that is amazing and the way our animal species are disappearing because of us humans, I'm not surprised we'll lose languages too. It's a worry...
Wow!
I didn't realize that about languages. :(
Sad about languages. Progress. Pfft.
Um, but that is frikkin cool
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