In space will send a disc of flint with photos of our history

In space will send a disc of flint with photos of our history.

 Non-profit public art organization Creative Time sponsored project to launch into space of a silicon disk, a prisoner in a gilded shell.
As reported by The New York Times, the disk contains hundred photos representing the history of modern man.
Presentation of the project will be held September 19, 2012 at Bryant Park in Manhattan (USA). The project The Last Pictures participating artist and geographer Trevor Mr. Paglen, filmmaker Werner Herzog and poet, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Smith.
The disc is attached to the outer surface of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI, which will be launched in the end of the year. Disk structure and shell developed by specialists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carleton College (USA).
The aim of the project is to keep the memory of our present civilization to the time when it will disappear.
"Since 1963, more than eight hundred satellites were launched into geostationary orbit, forming a ring of artificial satellites around the Earth. These satellites would become one of the longest artifacts of human civilization ..." - the organizers of the project.