We appreciate the importance of leaving a Rosetta Stone though.
If you really want to be understood by an archeologist in a geologically
far future, your stony time capsule needs some Latin or Greek :-)
hersch@silcom.com (Hersch Nitikman) wrote:
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> I believe that Etruscan writings in Tuscany, approximately 2-3000 years
> old have still not been deciphered.
>
> At 02:52 PM 08/08/2001, you wrote:
> >In <F194FrYILoygXLsxpTl0000133b@hotmail.com>, Lynn Allen wrote:
> >
> > > >Best backup medium is probably binary printed on acid-free paper as
> > > >barcodes. This is well capable of true Dead Sea Scrolls archival
> > longevity,
> > > >if suitably stored.
> > >
> > > That is probably the most unique solution I've heard all day, and
> > > probably
> > > all year. :-)
> > >
> > > If one could transcribe the bar-code to granite (and it's
> > > possible), you
> > > could have something that would last close to 30,000 years before
> > gradually
> > > turning into clay. Who'd read it then, or how, I couldn't rightly
> > > say. ;-)
> > >
> >Of course this assumes that anyone will still remember what the
> barcodes
> >actually mean!
> >
> >Brian Rumary, England
> >
> >
>
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> <font size=3>I believe that Etruscan writings in Tuscany, approximately
> 2-3000 years old have still not been deciphered. <br><br>
> At 02:52 PM 08/08/2001, you wrote:<br>
> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>In
> <F194FrYILoygXLsxpTl0000133b@hotmail.com>, Lynn Allen
> wrote:<br><br>
> > >Best backup medium is probably binary printed on acid-free
> paper
> as<br>
> > >barcodes. This is well capable of true Dead Sea Scrolls
> archival
> longevity, <br>
> > >if suitably stored.<br>
> > <br>
> > That is probably the most unique solution I've heard all day, and
> probably <br>
> > all year. :-)<br>
> > <br>
> > If one could transcribe the bar-code to granite (and it's
> possible),
> you <br>
> > could have something that would last close to 30,000 years before
> gradually <br>
> > turning into clay. Who'd read it then, or how, I couldn't rightly
> say. ;-)<br>
> ><br>
> Of course this assumes that anyone will still remember what the barcodes
> <br>
> actually mean!<br><br>
> Brian Rumary, England<br><br>
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