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Not to diminish the scientific value of this discovery, but there's also another way to send messages to the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing http:/
by jarin 16y ago
Not to diminish the scientific value of this discovery, but there's also another way to send messages to the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing
- sorbus 16y agoThe advantage of this would be sending a message which cannot be known until a point in the future - sort of like a time capsule with a lock that only opens on a certain day, but way more secure. While, for most purposes, merely storing encrypted information and only revealing the key later might be better, there are probably some things very paranoid people could use this for (a message that arrives after 100 years, for instance, could reveal all sorts of things, as the author would know that he would be dead by then). However, it's not very useful for practical purposes.
- MartinCron 16y agoI'm reminded about how Mark Twain put an embargo on parts of his autobiography, not to be released for 100 years after his death.
- shaggyfrog 16y agoI'm not sure writing is a great analogy to the discovery, unless you're describing a writing process where you can immediately destroy the medium used to fixate the information and have it spontaneously reassemble itself somehow in N years time.