On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:51:06 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:57:43 -0800, the infamous pyotr filipivich
scrawled the following:

Let the Record show that technomaNge on or
about Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:03:22 -0600 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Lewis Hartswick wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:

I remember a sci-fi story where they find an astronaut, trapped by
cave-in on the moon. Only - nobody is missing. This that and the
other, he's been there for - oh, 50,000 years. So they get the high
tech scanners out and "read" his notebook - using the table of
constants (which any engineer/astronauts manual would have) as the
Rosetta stone.


Is this it?

Inherit_the_Stars by James P. Hogan


http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...erit_the_Stars

"Winnah! WInnah! Chicken Dinnah!"


I'd finally recalled that it was by Hogan - it is part of a
"trilogy", we find a wrecked alien ship on Gayanmede, then survivors
enter the system (They've been trying to slow down for the last
umpteen thousand years - engine troubles.), then we beat the bad guys.

I like Hogan's style. _Children of Saturn_ is the latest (as far
as I know) - Velechovsky was correct.

I do, too. I read his _Thrice Upon a Time_ last year. A Scots hoot,
it was.


Just finished "Inherit the Stars"

Not a bad read. Hope there are more in the series.

Gunner

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the
means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of
it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different
countries, that the more public provisions were made for the
poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became
poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the
more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin
Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766