We can read Egyptian hieroglyphics. Anything written in simple English will be understandable even by an alien species in 100,000 years. Even without that, you could give the information visually in cartoon form.
Only because we found like one stone hundreds of years ago, if that was not the case we probably could not have done it.
>Anything written in simple English will be understandable even by an alien species in 100,000 years.
[Citation needed] This seems like quite an assumption.
Anyhow, the situation he sketched was that some random guy develops a fields with cylinders 300 years from now, how reasonable is it that he somehow understand the language or goes through the effort to translate it? I would wager pretty slim, I can barely understand text in my own language from 100 years ago.
The issue with hieroglyphics is that we only had a relatively small sample. If full books remain, it's going to be much easier to recover meaning from scratch. It's very close to what we already do with LLMs.
(And probably quite a few weirdos will still keep replicating the bible)
We might have disassembled every planet within a few thousand light years to englobe each corresponding star within a Dyson swarm.
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