# The Blueprints · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/blueprints/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · a room of the house · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt The Blueprints Built to keep the record a hundred years. Scroll, and the machine is put together before thee, piece by piece, then taken apart to show every part. Then the keeper is suited, one piece of gear at a time. ### I. The Hundred-Year Node A small, sealed, sun-powered computer that keeps the house's record through storms, outages and decades. It draws about 15 watts, all day and night, from one solar panel and one battery. The honest part first. No electronic part lasts a hundred years untended. Batteries wear out in about ten years, computers in about seven to ten, and panels in about twenty-five to thirty. A hundred years is reached the way an old ship is kept at sea: by a calendar of replacement, kept by people. The record itself is carried by the two things here that can last a century: M-DISC optical discs (a maker's claim of centuries, not yet proved by time) and cotton paper with carbon ink (proved by centuries of archives). The computer serves the record; it is not the record. ### 1. The whole, in one picture ### 2. The energy, worked out A second battery (or a 120 Ah one) buys the full three days. Measure the real draw for a month before buying more. ### 3. The case and its shade - Heat is the first enemy in Florida: a sealed case in direct sun can pass 50 °C inside. Shade it completely, make it white, and let the aluminium plate carry heat to the wall. - Salt and damp are the second. Gaskets greased with food-grade silicone; two rechargeable silica-gel packs; the humidity logged so a failing seal shows before it does harm. - Mount it off the ground, out of flood reach, grounded, and away from salt spray where possible. ### 4. Parts ### 5. The three tiers of the record ### 6. The century calendar What wears out, how often it is replaced, and how many times in a hundred years. These are planning figures; the node's own logs will correct them. The real hundred-year part is the keepers. The calendar only works if someone keeps it, writes down each change, and trains the one after. The node should remind them: it knows its own age and the age of each part. ### 7. Open questions - Where does the first node stand: the house, or a second place at a distance? - Do we buy for three full days (120 Ah or two batteries) from the start, or begin at 100 Ah and measure? - Who keeps the century calendar after us, and where is it written? ### II. The Keeper's Kit The personal gear each keeper of the line carries: a computer, a radio, its own power, and the record, small enough for one bag, working with no grid, no phone network and no internet. Built from the same family of parts as the node, so a keeper can mend either. ### 1. The kit, in one picture ### 2. The energy, worked out ### 3. Parts ### 4. Rules of the kit - One kind of plug. USB-C wherever possible; 12 V where not. - Two copies on the person, one at home. The kit never holds the only copy of anything. - Repairable over powerful. Choose the part a keeper can open and mend. - Offline first. Every tool in the kit works with no network; the network is a bonus. - Encrypted at rest. A lost bag loses gear, never the people in the record. ### 5. Open questions - Laptop or handheld for the first kit? (Laptop: easier to work on. Handheld: lighter, closer to the node.) - How many kits: one per head of house, or one per keeper as the line grows? - Should the kit's spec become a public page in time, so other keepers can build their own? ### III. The Space Seed What the house sends with every ship, satellite or settlement: the record in a can, and a node that can keep it far from the sun. Taken from the outside readers' sketch of the "0.5 L Archival Core" and its deep-space notes, and drawn here as two pieces. The honest part. None of this has flown. M-DISC and cotton paper have never been tested for decades of vacuum, cold and radiation, and a radioisotope power source is something only a space agency or a licensed mission can carry. These sheets show the shape of the thing, to be proved part by part. ### 1. The seed canister, cut open ### 2. The deep-space node, in profile ### 3. Open questions - Should the first seed be made now, for the ground, as practice for the one that flies? - What goes on the cotton charter: the Ladder only, or the canon and the keys too? Sources: Part I follows the specification in answers the house gathered from outside AI readers (the 15 W node, the battery and solar math, the NEMA-4X design, the Archival Core tiers and their maintenance). Sun-hour figures for Jacksonville are approximate and should be checked against NREL data before purchase.