[ExI] Earth repositories (on the Moon)

[ben]

Um, is it just me, then, that sees something fundamentally daft about 
this idea of storing information about how to bootstrap a civilisation 
in a form that can only be accessed by a civilisation that already has a 
pretty advanced technology base?

I'd think people would develop agriculture before radio, no?

And if the idea is that the radios would be there for them, why not just 
inscribe the info. on lots of stone tablets, or monoliths etc.? Probably 
easier, more durable, and more likely to work, i'd have thought.

Anyway, how are they supposed to know what radios are, or how to use 
them? Instructions written on stone tablets? ...

ben zaiboc