Re: Snaps

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>    Uncle Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >howard wrote:
> >>
> >> Can't think of an appropriate Ng, so here goes...
> >>
> >> How do I make a photographic image last a very long time ? I
> >> mean a *VERY* long time. I'm talking 5,000 - 20,000 years !
> >>
> >> Not digitised but as a viewable image, or negative/slide/print.
> >>
> >> Sealed in glass, in a vacuum ??  Laser burn, or etch the image
> >> granite or carbon? Or natures way, in amber. ?
> >
> >Survival time as such is not the issue.
>
> It's part of the issue.  I'll guarantee you that the thing
> that won't survive is exactly what you meant to keep; it's
> one of those Murphy things.

Just saw an intereting blurb on the Travel Channel, about Mount
Rushmore.  In 1998 they installed a time capsule inside the
mountain, which consists of copies of the US Constitution,
Declaration of Independence and assorted other documents.
They used a simple teak box, enclosed in a thick titanium shell
and capped with a 1000 lb. slab of granite.

If that ain't good for 20,000 years, nothing is.

Rick