"Joe Strout" wrote in message
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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.

And what's more, any civilization that rebuilds itself to the level of radio
would soon pick up the beacon and have a goal.

(I should specify the beacon be no more than a simple "here I am", doesn't
even need to encode data. It's meant partly as encouragement. Though,
perhaps a basic CW type beacon and then the a more complex encoded
transmission that a slightly more advanced civilization could decode would
be interesting. Have the more complex beacon include data on say the Saturn
V.)

Hmm, you know, this could be a fascinating project in severa parts.

Develop 1-3 physical methods for encoding data that can be decoded at a
later date that make no cultural assumptions.

Develop a transmission that can do the same (ala "Contact").



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