Comments on: A long term artificial object http://perassi.org/2006/12/18/a-long-term-artificial-object/ English scratches and Italian notes written by Carlo Perassi Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:04:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jerith http://perassi.org/2006/12/18/a-long-term-artificial-object/#comment-43 jerith Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:43:13 +0000 http://perassi.org/2006/12/18/a-long-term-artificial-object/#comment-43 I think the book you want is "Against the Fall of Night". Nothing on Earth is likely to last more than a few hundred million years, due to geological recycling and our highly destructive atmosphere. Our best bet for a local monument is probably Luna or a large, airless moon of one of the outer planets. Possibly even Ceres. My design would be a well-protected monument to humanity surrounded by a planetary-scale construction on the surface pointing to it. Possibly a thousand-mile-a-side equilateral triangle with the monument at the centre. Something obviously artificial. Good luck getting funding, though. :-) I think the book you want is “Against the Fall of Night”.

Nothing on Earth is likely to last more than a few hundred million years, due to geological recycling and our highly destructive atmosphere. Our best bet for a local monument is probably Luna or a large, airless moon of one of the outer planets. Possibly even Ceres.

My design would be a well-protected monument to humanity surrounded by a planetary-scale construction on the surface pointing to it. Possibly a thousand-mile-a-side equilateral triangle with the monument at the centre. Something obviously artificial.

Good luck getting funding, though. :-)

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