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- 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
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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
-