17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
10:55 p.m.
At 04:18 PM 1/17/1999 -0800, you wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
How about we start sending all our precious data into space via radio
waves towards some big celestial body (like one of Jupiter's moons) so
that in X years it will bounce back and we can then retrieve it
(hopefully intact thanks to some keen error correction protocol). Of
course you'd have to send it on such a trajectory that both the
transmission and bounced data stream are not obscured by some other object
(like that pesky moon!)
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The picture that comes to mind is all this data heading out into space to
be recovered by some advanced alien intellegence at a far galaxy, who then
have a look at Windows and decide Earth is populated by a very uncivilized
race and forthwith declare war.
(Think I could sell this as a pilot for a program to replace the X-Files?)
Cheers
Charlie Fox
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