Disasters and Recovery

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Mon Jan 18 06:55:57 1999

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!)
>
>Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar_at_siconic.com
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>Always being hassled by the man.
>
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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
	                        Charles E. Fox
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