Re: HistChan's "Life After People" and the SF implications

Knobby <knobbynobbs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:20c5cf17-32d0-4b5c-a20e-
61e45b634bdc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Good idea.  Possibly this is why Niven and Pournelle decided too make
> a Thuktun out of stone rather than something like the other materials
> you mention.
> 

Thuktun = Predecessor instructions found by the Fithp, right? I would 
have thought diamond more durable...though perhaps, as you say, merely 
more lootable.

Hmmmmm....what do we Homo saps find materially valueless, yet which can 
maintain a large quantity of encoded information across generations? 
Besides DNA, that is (and anyway DNA kinda depends on a workable 
biosphere----at least within broad definitions of such; prokaryote 
survivors would do!)...any thoughts?

Cheers,

JT