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Article #2353Re: message for the future
From: MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:40
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:40
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In article <10159@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM>, tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Tr evor German) writes: > > Re: sending a message to the future. > > Obviously anything placed on earth is likely to be destroyed > by plate techtonics etc so no good burying something. A transmition > that takes that long to get back would be hard to receive even if > you were expecting it. > > 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...................... > > > Came to me in a dream. > >-- > >| "Only average people | Trevor J German BSc |< > >| never make mistakes." | NCR, Waterloo, Ontario |< > >| tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM | Canada. |< > Just put it in an envelope with the instruction: Don't open until Red Sox win world series. -- MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN 758-0207 MLSA "I really do appreciate the fact you're sitting here, you're voice sounds so wonderful but your face don't look too clear so barmaid bring a pitcher, another round of brew, why don't we get drunk and screw?"- J. Buffett
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!ns1.cc.lehigh.edu!mlsa From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN) Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Subject: Re: message for the future Message-ID: <1992Nov21.234023.74717@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> Date: 21 Nov 92 23:40:23 GMT Organization: Lehigh University Lines: 36