[ExI] Earth repositories (on the Moon)

[Michael Miller]

I think they mean that the receivers are protected against attack/sabotage, don't they? Not that the signal itself would be guarded (after all, if this is provision for the collapse of civilisation the signal has to be accessible even if all records of an encryption key were lost...)

Mike

----- Original Message ----
From: Henrique Moraes Machado <cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:01:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Earth repositories (on the Moon)

>> The underground vault reportedly would transmit data
>> to strongly guarded receivers on Earth.

Brian Bishop> I don't like that: why not transmit for all to hear a message 
of hope?

Any radio transmission from the moon would illuminate a *huge* area on 
Earth. Unless the transmission is laser based (which I doubt), half world 
will be able to pick it up.  The transmissions should not be encrypted, 
though.
I don't think spinning magnetic hard disks are a good media to store this 
kind of data. Some non-magnetic, non-volatile, solid state means should be 
used instead. 

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