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> 6.7 million plates will probably weigh a lot. So off-world copies might need to use an alternative encoding scheme. For the Moon and Mars, carve them into st
by pmontra 4y ago
> 6.7 million plates will probably weigh a lot. So off-world copies might need to use an alternative encoding scheme.
For the Moon and Mars, carve them into stone there. You'll have to defend against meteor strikes so they'll be carved and stored deep underground. No idea about seismic activity on those bodies.
For outer space, maybe it's pointless because finding, boarding, unloading an interstellar probe and sending the cargo back home is not easy unless you have very advanced interstellar ships. An orbit around the sun could be an easier place to spot. The Library of Ceres or the Library of the Troians?
- akie 4y agoNot sure if serious or sarcasm.
- burnished 4y agoWhat about that seemed sarcastic? It read as a practical solution to an unlikely problem. Orbiting the sun seems like a pretty stellar solution to the whole "keep something close and visible but safe without maintenance" problem. Plus, think of how exciting it would be for a future civilization to discover that an object orbiting the sun was not a lump of rock!
- krisoft 4y ago> they'll be carved and stored deep underground. But of course you need some marker then on the ground so people know where to look for it later if they want to read the data. Maybe some artwork? A giant monolith perhaps?
- ASalazarMX 4y agoA giant pyramid, they can last thousands of years even in our aggressive environment, much more in the weak Martian weather.
- krisoft 4y agoI love that. Should we dig in the Cydonia region on Mars? :) Perhaps at the D&M pyramid? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia04745-the-cydonia-dm-pyramid-landform https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia04745-the-cydonia-dm-pyra...
- ASalazarMX 4y agoI'd start with the pyramid, but there's a risk of trying to dig up a regular mountain, which would be very wasteful. Maybe we should dig instead the Face of Mars after all, but who knows what other alien faces are there that we can't recognize? Let's dig everywhere!