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Old September 13th 07, 10:34 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Joe Strout
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Default Google/X-Prize Moon Contest

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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:

You know, I'd love to see some sort of "time capsule" buried on the Moon.

Something with a solar/nuclear battery that could last say 10K years. Put a
radio beacon on it and store as much knowledge as possible in a few
different formats.

Radio updates to it every year and every 5-10 years add physical medium
updates.

Sort of an insurance against various forms of industrial collapse.


That's a neat idea. Unlike pretty much any archive on Earth, you can
count on it remaining unmolested as long as civilization remains in
collapse.

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