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Much has been said about the danger of total reliance on electronic media for historical storage.
Millions of tons of granite are queried and installed for Ozymandian purposes.
Cemeteries are undoubtedly places where future archaeologist will be digging.
Donate the surface area on the
back of monuments to preserve critical information.
Whole books can be preserved by etching microfilm photographs onto the stone, if necessary, crossing multiple stones. Language can be used directly (as opposed to photographs) as well.
CD Rot
http://www.cnn.com/...c.rot.ap/index.html
[theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004]
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Like a 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second? |
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I wouldn't necessarily limit it to that -- in fact, see ammendment |
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Isn't this baked by words of lifetime-gained wisdom generally placed on headstones? |
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Disappointed you're not using the stone to show the same information in different languages. |
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Worldgineer -- I think I went wrong in description above, posting wording changes. |
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DrCurry -- that originated the idea, but I decided against it. The idea as stated does not preclude it, of course. |
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30662 - The statements on gravestone #119334 are false.
119334 - The statements on gravestone #30662 are true. |
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The stone you mark upon will weather at some rate related to the type of stone and the climate. I'll bet that microfilm cannot be deeply etched, and that the light etching will remain legible for a few years, decades at best. Or did you mean bottom, not back? |
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(Laughs Last) - the back of yours can say hahahaha. |
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LaughsLast -- Acid rain is definitely a concern, but I haven't noticed any appreciable weathering, over a period of 10 years or so, on several graves that I vist a couple of times a year. The stones are granite, and the photographs are as lifelike today as initially. |
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Having said that, we'd probably use diamond coating as it becomes more available. |
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I really like your idea - it's one of the few true originals
that I have seen on this site, but can it please include the
works of Edward Gorey |
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//Millions of tons of granite are queried // Quarried? |
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i have no quarrel with that |
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