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From: doug@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Doug Hendricks)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Long Life Battery and Clock: Thank you
Message-ID: <1310018@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 88 23:00:55 GMT
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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I want to thank all of the people who gave me responses to my
question about a Long-Life Battery and Clock. My brother and his artist friend
were very pleased. For those who wondered, this is what the artist planed to 
do (my interpretation):

A videotape would be made of time-capsule-y images and sounds and placed
in a video system that would activate and play after 100 years. Clearly,
there are many technological problems to be faced here, not the least
being the degradation of materials.

I advanced very general questions because I wanted to see how wide a range
of creative answers I could receive, and I was not disappointed.

Thank you and Merry Christmas,

Douglas Hendricks     Know the Seven Warning Signs of Weirdness.
Hewlett-Packard       See Your Doctor.
Santa Clara, CA