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If you could send a book back in time for a person to read, what book would it be and who would be the recipient? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Silmarillion, but carved into stone and sent to the earliest Northern Europeans

See what happens to world mythology

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Carved into stone. So you're sending them a literal mountain

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Have it printed on a series of cave walls that go deep into the ocean and by the time the present comes around again, maybe we'll have fully explored the oceans and there will still be unexplored land.

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago

Sure, why not?