<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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...)<br><br>Mike<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Henrique Moraes Machado <cetico.iconoclasta@gmail.com><br>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:01:36 PM<br>Subject: Re: [ExI] Earth repositories (on the Moon)<br><br>
>>
The
underground
vault
reportedly
would
transmit
data<br>>>
to
strongly
guarded
receivers
on
Earth.<br><br>Brian
Bishop>
I
don't
like
that:
why
not
transmit
for
all
to
hear
a
message <br>of
hope?<br><br>Any
radio
transmission
from
the
moon
would
illuminate
a
*huge*
area
on <br>Earth.
Unless
the
transmission
is
laser
based
(which
I
doubt),
half
world <br>will
be
able
to
pick
it
up.
The
transmissions
should
not
be
encrypted, <br>though.<br>I
don't
think
spinning
magnetic
hard
disks
are
a
good
media
to
store
this <br>kind
of
data.
Some
non-magnetic,
non-volatile,
solid
state
means
should
be <br>used
instead. <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat
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