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Re: message for the future

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From: MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN
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

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From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
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Subject: Re: message for the future
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Date: 21 Nov 92 23:40:23 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
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