If all goes according to plan, French language speakers in 50,000 years time will be able to find out what French (and other language) speakers in 2003 thought about the universe. A French-inspired project baptised KEO (www.keo.org) aims to send a winged satellite into deep space next year, containing a large digital corpus of individual messages and other texts in French—and 59 other languages constituting a new 'Library of Alexandria'—to inform any of our descendants who might decode them about our 3rd millennium preoccupations. (Europmap-Newsletter)