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Sep 14 2005, 11:15 AM
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Sep 15 2005, 05:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Getting *really* crowded! My certificate number is 421919.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 16 2005, 11:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Edam, The Netherlands Member No.: 65 |
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Sep 16 2005, 11:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
As I stated back in the forum on the Cassini signatures disc:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=19752 For something that is essentially preserving a piece of ourselves for literally millions of years or more (far longer than anything made by us that will last on Earth), there should be more than just a bunch of names on that disc. Note I did NOT say you couldn't have signatures, just that there should be something more - to say nothing of a better means of preservation, as cosmic radiation will wipe out the DVD and make it unreadable. Plus, do you think those who may find it in the far future will know how to read a DVD, human or otherwise? Something of this magnitude should be more than just a publicity stunt, which a bunch of names on an easily destroyed medium is all that it is. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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