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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 Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. 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" <jbradel@astro.luna.edu> CC: "Therese Troisema" <ttroisema@inria.fr> From: "David Kenter" <dkenter@xob.isea.mr> 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 Cerf [Page 1]

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