Re: Snaps

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><[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.

That may preserve it.  My interests aren't into just 
preservation of the bits; my interests also include
being able to use those bits productively.  So a part of
the preservation is also include enough ABC info so that
the more complicated, minimized text can be read as it
was written.  

The Constitution talks about liberty.  Even today, two groups
of people interpret that word into two (almost) opposing meanings.
I hope they also included a dictionary in the capsule.  It's not
perfect but can give some clues.

/BAH

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