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A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY
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Network Working Group V. Cerf
Request for Comments: 1607 Internet Society
Category: Informational 1 April 1994
A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY
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A NOTE TO THE READER
The letters below were discovered in September 1993 in a reverse
time-capsule apparently sent from 2023. The author of this paper
cannot vouch for the accuracy of the letter contents, but spectral
and radiation analysis are consistent with origin later than 2020. It
is not known what, if any, effect will arise if readers take actions
based on the future history contained in these documents. I trust
you will be particularly careful with our collective futures!
THE LETTERS
To: "Jonathan Bradel" [email protected]>
CC: "Therese Troisema" [email protected]>
From: "David Kenter" [email protected]>
Date: September 8, 2023 08:47.01 MT
Subject: Hello from the Exobiology Lab!
Hi Jonathan!
I just wanted to let you know that I have settled in my new
offices at the Exobiology Lab at the Interplanetary Space
Exploration Agency's base here on Mars. The trip out was
uneventful and did let me get through an awful lot of
reading in preparation for my three year term here. There
is an excellent library of material here at the lab and
reasonable communications back home, thanks to the CommRing
satellites that were put up last year here. The transfer
rates are only a few terabits per second, but this is
usually adequate for the most part.
We've been doing some simulation work to test various
theories of bio-history on Mars and I have attached the
output of one of the more interesting runs. The results are
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