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Rosetta

Rosetta
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About Rosetta

Rosetta or Rashid is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km (40 mi) east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The Rosetta Stone was discovered in nearby Fort Julien in 1799.

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Course the problem is that in about 20 years no one will even know how to access it it's going to look like a bit of rock yeah I find that really interesting it'd be really cool though if like the next Rosetta stone is literally a little stone oh wow yeah it could be like the next Rosetta stone they get a usb stick and a mini disk and a floppy disk and they're like how do we get the data out of this.

from 336: No Such Thing As A Delicious Emergency Salad, 2020-08-28 at 00:22:02 · read transcript

Other times Rosetta came up

  1. That's nice. It's something to do. They do do that. They do say that the friendship thing is true. There was a town called Rosetta in Pennsylvania, wasn't there? Where everyone there was very, they were kind of closely related. There were just a few families. They had a lot of social cohesion and they had a very, very high lifespan. Then as soon as basically they let the foreigners in from other towns and other cities, suddenly they regressed to the national average.

    No Such Thing As A Ghost In Blue Jeans, 2024-11-07 · listen

  2. This thing, so, just back to the comet quickly, they've discovered a lot of stuff. For example, they discovered a new kind of carbon, which was really complicated, not like the kind of carbon that we're made of. There was an interview with a team member of Rosetta called Evie Cotton. He said, It is so complex, we can't give it a proper formula or a name!

    134: No Such Thing As Sauce For The King Of Sweden, 2016-10-08 · listen

  3. LAUGHTER Great, finally we can... Oh, wait, something... Oh, what's this format? LAUGHTER Rosetta took 116,000 photos on the mission and it sent back 218 gigabytes of data and... I don't even say it sent back 218 of them. It's taken a selfie. No, no, no, no. LAUGHTER It sent back 218 gigabytes of data and I worked out that what that would be is 872 copies of the film Deep Impact.

    134: No Such Thing As Sauce For The King Of Sweden, 2016-10-08 · listen

  4. This thing, so with the, just back to the comic quickly, they've discovered a lot of stuff. For example, they discovered a new kind of car, which was really complicated, not like the kind of carbon that we're made of. There was an interview with a team member of Rosetta called Alvé Kotin. He said, it is so complex, we can't give it a proper formula or a name.

    No Such Thing As Sauce For The King Of Sweden, 2016-10-07 · listen

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