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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: message for the future
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.000046.18313@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:00:46 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <10159@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1992Nov20.163058@IASTATE.EDU>
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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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