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Can there be a million-year storage disk?
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article published on 27 October, 2013
According to researchers at the University of Twente, the ultimate goal is to create a storage disk that will outlast "the human race itself."
The team has a goal of 1 million years, with a stretch goal of 1 billion years for an upcoming disk that will help preserve vital information forever.
"Whether it is music, art, literature, or scientific breakthroughs, people have tried to ensure ... [ read the full article ]
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Bozobub
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27. October 2013 @ 15:38 |
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Actually, this may seem silly to some, but it's quite important. Just as a single example, what happens to most human knowledge, currently stored on magnetic media, when a large EMP event (nuclear explosion(s), large solar flare, supernova particle wavefront, et al.) happens? For that matter, how many of those old 3-1/2" minifloppies (much less older 5-1/4" or 8") are accessible today? Furthermore, CDs and DVDs eventually delaminate, even though they aren't magnetic storage.
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28. October 2013 @ 06:30 |
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be interesting for future generations if we could a record of events from our life time on a disc and it could be kept for the future like a journal.handed down from generation to generation.easier than paperwork.
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Blessedon
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28. October 2013 @ 11:52 |
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As long as my Iggy Pop collection survives for the coming aliens to be astonished at...to heck with the NSA collection!!!!
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harhumph
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28. October 2013 @ 12:57 |
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Originally posted by Blessedon:
As long as my Iggy Pop collection survives for the coming aliens to be astonished at...to heck with the NSA collection!!!!
Awesome, haha. I further submit that all future generations should have knowledge of every name given to every Garbage Pail Kid card in existence!!!
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28. October 2013 @ 13:11 |
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If they could achieve this I would recommend that they send it to the moon for safe keeping. It is more likely to be the case that no matter what the longevity of this device is, as the article says it cannot withstand fire, if it can't do that then just send it to the moon! I think that would be a pretty cool discovery.
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28. October 2013 @ 16:17 |
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A Sci-Fi Fairy Tail. Nothing last forever.
Live Free or Die.
The rule above all the rules is: Survive !
Capitalism: Funnel most of the $$$ to the already rich.
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Bozobub
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28. October 2013 @ 17:05 |
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No one said "forever". Just "a long time".
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Justoneguy
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29. October 2013 @ 09:02 |
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Maybe the ancients were on to something when they started chiseling their important records onto stone tablets.
Maybe they should figure out a way to encase their storage medium in thousands of pounds of marble or granite. How cool of a "fossil" find would that be a million years from now?
Hopefully they don't forget to include the "rosetta stone" or player for the medium as well.
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29. October 2013 @ 14:01 |
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Originally posted by Bozobub:
No one said "forever". Just "a long time".
i was under the impression rocks and diamonds last forever,but im sure humans find ways to destroy them.
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29. October 2013 @ 14:02 |
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delete this double posts.
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Bozobub
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29. October 2013 @ 15:16 |
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Rocks (including diamonds) definitely DO NOT last forever ^^ .
You do realize sand is broken-down rock, right?
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Blessedon
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29. October 2013 @ 18:05 |
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Obviously, 'forever' could only be applied to a God.
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