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- From: tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Trevor German)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: ROTATION OF THE MOON
- Message-ID: <10160@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:37:08 GMT
- Sender: news@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM
- Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA
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- There was a question in rec.puzzles asking how to send a message
- to the future (real time) say a million years or whatever and I
- send it this responce.
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- Re: sending a message to the future.
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- 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.
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- 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......................
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- Came to me in a dream.
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- I was being a tad facetious (?sp), but it got me thinking about the
- rotational speed of the moon. I know it has a rotation time
- that matches the orbit time but I was wondering why this is ?
- Is the match exact ? I assume it is extremely close since there are
- no records of it being any different from how we see it now, or
- at least I don't know of any. What is the governing factor, or
- is it just a wild coincidence ?
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