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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro
- Subject: Re: ROTATION OF THE MOON
- Message-ID: <30903@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:15:29 GMT
- References: <10160@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM|
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- In article <10160@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM| tjgerman@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Trevor German) writes:
- |
- | 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.
- |
- | 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.
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- And put it at a distance so that it subtends the same angular diameter
- as the sun.
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- --
- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
- ....alien language from an SF short story on a 78-RPM record I had as a kid.
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