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This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years (www.theregister.com)
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"the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter."

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

IIRC the thing is, you first present the key to the structure in some simple form, and then the rest of the data can be more complex.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Like the question how one would tell a future generation to not go to a dangerous place? Like a nuclear waste dump. Slightly different topic, I know.

    Communicating with someone whose language and mindset doesn't exist yet could be tricky. But math could be possible.:)

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