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Originally Posted by PetersCreek
Why does it need to be visible from Earth?
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So that the inheritors of the Earth who may not be advanced as us might gain something of us.
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Originally Posted by PetersCreek
But I hardly think it's necessary. I think we've left more than adequate signs of our passing.
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Signs that in a hunderd million or a billion years will be recognisable as such by a pre telescopic inteligence?
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Originally Posted by PetersCreek
Put it on the far side. That way, it wouldn't mar our view but ET visitors would readily see it. Our Earthly successors will discover it when they achieve the capability of space travel and are presumably ready to know about us.
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What's the point of that? By then they will gain very little from the awareness of us.
Putting such a message on the moon will tell them something about us without actually writing it. It will tell them that dispite the magnificent achievement of being able to put the marks on the moon we humbly acknowledge the possibility of our own mortality on this world. Yet still we are willing to make the herculean effort of bequething our highest achievements to people we have no possibility of recieving gain from. I suppose in a sense that means
