At 10:18 5/1/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Yeah. But why do we send nuclear-powered, exploratory >spacecraft out there, to drift endlessly once their >fuel is "depleted"..... but with a nice map and other >artifacts pointing back to humans and planet earth, >just so that some aliens ( who might not be really >happy about our radioactive space junk! ) know where >to come find us! Hmm. Wondering here... Just how much and what type of radioactive material started out from earth? I'm thinking that, given the concept of "half-life", the time (thousands & thousands of years from now) that "junk" gets anywhere close to a planetary system, it's radioactivity will be about that of the dial on an old radium wristwatch. > That's arrogant. And really, really stupid! ...and your suggestions, prior to it's launch, for a long lasting power source and an identifying inscription were... ??? Methinks thou art Monday morning quarterbacking - decades later. >Perhaps, some day, solving the myriad problems we >have right here on earth will be "sexy" enough to >attract our finest minds! > Gordon Lee Stelter Perhaps. Which are you tackling next? Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT Decorah, IA Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems
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