Within in the next century, more than half of the world’s spoken languages will disappear.  To preserve the languages and to provide comparative linguistic research of the lost languages in the future, the Long Now Foundation has created the Rosetta Disk (named after the Rosetta Stone, which, created over 2000 years ago, helped linguists decipher hieroglyphics).  The Rosetta Disk is a 3-inch nickel disk that has 1500 languages micro-etched on to it.  In order to see the 13,000 pages of language documentation, one needs to magnify the disk 650 times with a microscope.  It should be noted that the Long Now Foundation did not invent Viagra, no matter what the foundation’s name suggests.  Swallowing a Rosetta Disk will not give you an erection, but it may give you a case of verbal diarrhea.

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