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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23 Feb
23 Feb
9:27 p.m.
On 23 Feb 2007 at 22:30, Mark Tapley wrote:
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 :-).
I wonder how much damage micrometeorites will do after a few
millenia?
Cheers,
Chuck
25 Feb
25 Feb
6:54 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 23 Feb 2007 at 22:30, Mark Tapley wrote:
Or radiation.
Peace... Sridhar
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 :-).
I wonder how much damage micrometeorites will do after a few
millenia? 
26 Feb
26 Feb
9:38 a.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Or aliens. If aliens do exist, it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of them
will break the darn thing in the process of trying to read and understand it.
On 23 Feb 2007 at 22:30, Mark Tapley wrote:
Or radiation. 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 :-).
I wonder how much damage micrometeorites will do after a few millenia? 
2:22 p.m.
>>> 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 :-).
>>
>> I wonder how much damage micrometeorites will do after a few millenia?
>
> Or radiation.
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
Or aliens. If aliens do exist, it wouldn't
surprise me if the majority of them
will break the darn thing in the process of trying to read and understand it.
better warn them to write-protect it before mounting it in Windoze!
1 Mar
1 Mar
3:07 p.m.
New subject: Long-term storage
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&…
. . . and the technology ia almost far enough along to start trying to
read what is already stored there
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