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Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia

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Combining the logical rigor with the lyrical finesse of a novelist , award-winning author Gregory Benford explores these and other fascinating questions in this provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal.  In Deep Time he confronts our growing influence on events hundreds of thousands of years into the future and explores the possible "messeges" we may transmit to our distant descendants in the language of the planet itself, from nuclear waste to global warming to the extinction of species.  As we begin our incredible journey down the path of eternity, Gregory Benford masterfully calls forth some of the intriguing, astounding, undreamed-of futures which may await us in deep time.
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For anyone interested in things like this, I'd recommend "Deep Time" by Gregory Benford[1]. It has a chapter devoted to WIPP[2] and this messaging.

[1] Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Time-Humanity-Communicates-Mille...

[2] Seems to be online, albeit poorly formatted, here: https://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/benford.html

The concept that you are interested in is known as deep time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time) and there is a book by the same name by Gregory Benford (http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Time-Humanity-Communicates-Millen...) that explores the idea in greater depth.
andyjohnson0
Thanks! I'm familiar with the term, and I have a copy of the Benford book that I bought when it was published. The sections on the WIPP marker and the Cassini message are particularly interesting.
There's a great discussion of this project in Deep Time by Gregory Benford, which is where I first learned about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Time-Humanity-Communicates-Millen...

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