23 Feb
2007
23 Feb
'07
8:30 p.m.
At 15:35 -0600 2/23/07, der Mouse wrote:
Certainly. And forget centrues; try millennia. The
Pyramids. The
Sphinx. Stonehenge. The French cave paintings. Old Greek and Roman
coins from archaeological digs.
At 21:11 -0600 2/23/07, Chuck wrote:
Heck, we've "manufactured" artifacts that
will last for a hundred
thousand years or more. Just google "Yucca Mountain".
Pikers.
Try the Voyager record. *That* puppy is going to be around
(somewhere) for some serious millenia. Or the CD taped to the New
Horizons Spacecraft, seen below in on-topic format :-).
Data retrieval, however, will not be easy.
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