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- From: macster@IASTATE.EDU (Michael C Mccarty)
- Subject: Re: message for the future
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.163058@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: macster@IASTATE.EDU (Michael C Mccarty)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <10159@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:30:58 GMT
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- 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.
-
- Just Nit-pickin',
- Mike
-