It doesn't matter if normal people don't understand them - you want to
talk to archeologists.
No matter how far forward you go, someone somewhere will be devoted to
well-documented dead languages!
hersch@silcom.com (Hersch Nitikman) wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, Derek. However, the dominance of Latin and
> Greek as unioversal education seems to be waning... <g>
> Hersch
>
> At 04:30 AM 08/09/2001, you wrote:
> >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>
> > > <a href=";
> > >
> > >
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> > > a></font></blockquote><br>
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