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Post by Q on Apr 16, 2004 1:05:01 GMT -5
How should one prepare for the doomsday asteroid?
What type of format will survive such an impact?
Can we store music in natural quartz crystals?
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Post by Zan on Apr 16, 2004 17:10:41 GMT -5
If you've got the money, I guess you can do anything.
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Post by robotusa on Apr 18, 2004 3:46:44 GMT -5
A few ways for our music to survive the asteroid is for it to be in constant transmission from multiple, solar powered satellites, assuming the impact does not cloud the rays or damage the units. Another way is to place multiple CD disks buried in multiple locations on the earth for future archeologists to discover and uncode. Packaging the CD's in styrophome could help the preservation. Another way would be to send a CD and Player with several battery packages to the moon via the moon-transport initiative which is underway where anyone can send a package to the moon on a specific transport mission. Packages range as small as a business card or as large as you can afford. Prices start in the multiple thousands.
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Post by Q on Apr 19, 2004 20:56:06 GMT -5
Initial calculations indicate there is a chance the asteroid - known as 2002 NT7 - will hit the Earth on February 1, 2019. But scientists say the calculations are preliminary and the risk to the planet is low.
It orbits the sun every 837 days, and NASA scientists predict its path could intersect with the Earth's orbit.
In 1987 we avoided an impact by four hours, had the Earth been where we were four hours earlier, it would've been a direct impact.
The fact is, that we have no way of determining how long digital data will withstand the tests of time. We can guess, we are assured it will last as least several decades without degrading, if not exposed to direct sunlight.
But, what about the effect of electromagnetics?
Basically, the magnetic placment of the music on a compact disc could drift, resulting in a "mish mash" of binary data.
It seems that one of the best ways might be the good old fashioned notation of music, possibly dented into notes on a non corrosive metallic sheet. Any advanced civilization could easily figure out a chromatical scale. This sheet could then be placed on a moon or planetoid.
It seems that each government or business should be racing to secure thier mark on any reachable planetoid.
An object must reach the speed of 24,000 MPH to escape the gravity of the Earth, so it's not an issue of money, but of speed. Money is one way to reach that speed.
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Post by Zan on Apr 19, 2004 21:10:26 GMT -5
In a way we have already imortalizied music. broadcasts which have occured in the 1950s and 60s are already reaching other galaxies.
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Post by Q on Apr 20, 2004 23:06:26 GMT -5
very, very true....
anything that has been transmitted along radio waves, has been "released" into the cosmos, now the transmissions pointed directly toward space have a greater chance of reaching a farther point.
If scientific predictions about the distribution of radio signals are true, light moving at roughly 186,000 miles per second.... we should have a radiosphere with a radius of about 60 light years projecting out from the earth.... reaching neighboring solar systems, but still well within our galactic quadrant.
hence, the need to get our sonics to college radio and other transmitting sources, such as xm radio....
all of which is in the works, of course....
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Post by aaarrrggghhh on Aug 4, 2004 17:48:05 GMT -5
uh... pray
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