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In article <1992Nov20.163058@IASTATE.EDU> macster@IASTATE.EDU (Michael C Mccarty) writes:
>In article <10159@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM>, tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM
>(Trevor German) writes:
>> 
>> 	Re: sending a message to the future.
>>                 ...... 
>>
>> 		I have a much better idea. Take a dead satelite. A big one,
>> 	like say the moon. Then blast its surface with  enough nukes to
>> 	make an easily recognisable pattern that would be only partly
>> 	erased by comet and meteoride collisions. Then just for good measure,
>> 	adjust the rotational velocity of the moon so that the message
>> 	always faces the earth. The message could be something like
>> 	a big face......................
>> 
>
>Ummm.....  I kinda always thought that the moon always DID show the same side to
>the Earth.... That's why its called the "Dark Side Of the Moon".
>
>I suppose you say that over the next couple million years that the moon's
>rotational velocity will change enough to change the face, but, then again, over
>the next couple million years, the millions of asteroids and meteors hitting it
>will probably change it quite a bit as well.

Sorry Mike, but you just won the Clueless award for this week (I
awarded it to myself last week, so don't be too upset :-) )
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