Jean-Marc Philippe, a French artist, is planning to launch a satellite in
2001 carrying 80 CDs of “the complete human knowledge”. The orbit of this work
of art will decay so slowly that the 80-centimetre craft will fall back to Earth
in 52001. Aerospatiale is helping Philippe to work out how to protect the
CDs.
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