If the world was destroyed and you could only leave 2 books for evidence of our existence on the moon what books would you pick. Just incase other life forms found it.
2007-09-08 06:52:50 · 14 answers · asked by sheltz32tt 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
First you would have to put a physics book with a lot of math in it. Maybe principal de mathematica by Isaac Newton or some more up to date version of it which included relativity and string theory. Two reasons for this. One in order for an alien species to read our language they would need to find a common thread between our languages, and math is the universal language. Second I think knowing where we were in terms of advanced science would allow another species to determine what stage of evolution we reached.
The second book would be the most detailed world history book I could find.
2007-09-08 07:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by Batman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not leave two books. I would leave the book "The Giving Tree" and a recent edition of the NY Times chronicling the way in which man destroyed man. The book would show the finders how to live and not destroys one's species.
2007-09-08 17:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by naniannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the world were coming to an end, I'm not sure the moon would survive either, so it might not be a safe place to leave anything.
However, assuming it is, I'd place the Bible and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. That way, maybe those who find them might not repeat the mistakes of mankind.
2007-09-08 14:11:04 · answer #3 · answered by Jude & Cristen H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. The Oxford English Dictionary
2. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2007-09-08 14:00:38 · answer #4 · answered by cool_breeze_2444 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your Favorite Seuss, 13 Stories written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss with 13 introductory essays. (Random House New York)
Epanded Universe by Robert A. Heinlein (Ace Books New York)
The imagination of childhood, the cynicism of adulthood, and the sense of wonder at what could be.
2007-09-08 16:47:56 · answer #5 · answered by LostInSpaces 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible and the Da Vinci Code.
Reason being is that anyone who finds them can see how our actions on earth are motivated by our religions, and that we do not agree with each other.
Whoever finds them would know that wars have started because of religion, and that we would have all been better off if we had known the true existence of God.
2007-09-08 19:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by tristan-adams 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible and Darwin's Journal, of a Voyage around the world, in H.M.S. Beagle, with particular reference to the Galapagos Archipelago. (As a result of which he propounded
his Theory of Evolution).
I could never resist starting an argument!!!!
2007-09-08 14:55:01 · answer #7 · answered by macdelanoche 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Quran and a history book
2007-09-08 14:12:32 · answer #8 · answered by demhavi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Gore Vidal. If anyone comes looking for us, I want them to know about our perverse sense of humor before they go sifting through our ruins. After all, forewarned is forearmed!
2007-09-08 14:00:20 · answer #9 · answered by MUDD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guiness Book of World Records for one. Maybe the bible, so they could compare notes
2007-09-08 14:01:36 · answer #10 · answered by Kraig P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋