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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5699104" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>I can see some possible ways to set up communications. For instance, if you could somehow pinpoint the location at which a paleontological dig is in progress, with an 85-million-year-old stratum of perfectly-preserved rock in the process of being unearthed, and tie it in to the location of that rock face back in prehistoric times, then you really could scrawl messages on that rock - perhaps in radioactive isotopes that can leave a detectable trace even after millions of years - and pre-arrange for the modern-day diggers to uncover new areas of rock on a specific schedule, allowing messages to be revealed at a pace synchronised to the timeline of the colony.</p><p></p><p>The idea of an actual probe or black-box surviving all that time and being locatable and identifiable at the end of it seems somewhat less likely, though again if you're working with an established location that's known to be relatively geologically stable and use some form of passive data storage with extreme longevity, packed in something very, very tough and inert, it might possibly survive that duration.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I haven't seen beyond the first two episodes yet, so I don't know if they've shown anything particularly astonishing in that regard, but I don't think the power requirements for the fairly low-impact energy consumption we see in those episodes would be that great. Sustaining a colony that size wouldn't even come close to comparing to the energy requirements of an overpopulated, under-resourced future society. And given the apparent 100% cloud cover of the future Earth, solar power would appear to be an ill-suited technology to its needs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 5699104, member: 40176"] I can see some possible ways to set up communications. For instance, if you could somehow pinpoint the location at which a paleontological dig is in progress, with an 85-million-year-old stratum of perfectly-preserved rock in the process of being unearthed, and tie it in to the location of that rock face back in prehistoric times, then you really could scrawl messages on that rock - perhaps in radioactive isotopes that can leave a detectable trace even after millions of years - and pre-arrange for the modern-day diggers to uncover new areas of rock on a specific schedule, allowing messages to be revealed at a pace synchronised to the timeline of the colony. The idea of an actual probe or black-box surviving all that time and being locatable and identifiable at the end of it seems somewhat less likely, though again if you're working with an established location that's known to be relatively geologically stable and use some form of passive data storage with extreme longevity, packed in something very, very tough and inert, it might possibly survive that duration. I haven't seen beyond the first two episodes yet, so I don't know if they've shown anything particularly astonishing in that regard, but I don't think the power requirements for the fairly low-impact energy consumption we see in those episodes would be that great. Sustaining a colony that size wouldn't even come close to comparing to the energy requirements of an overpopulated, under-resourced future society. And given the apparent 100% cloud cover of the future Earth, solar power would appear to be an ill-suited technology to its needs. [/QUOTE]
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