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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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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (21 children)

This grinds my gears any time that a product is touted as lasting X time. Did you put it through a typical use case or scenario for that X time? No? Then you cannot definitively say that it will last that long.

Based on their bullshit statement, I can last 7 years pounding someone's ass relentlessly without pause for any reason. Trust me bro.

[–] arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, people do predict things based on evidence. Galileo didn't actually go to outer space and verify that the earth was going around the sun.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't they think in those days that your eyes sent beams out to touch whatever they were looking at?

I wonder if he thought his eyes were sending beams out into space.

[–] arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't see how that's relevant here.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If his eyes were sending out rays, they did go out into space.

But that's not actually how it works. Although it is how it works in video games (raytracing).

I think it is just a fun way of thinking about it.

In reality, things from space were travelling to earth to interact with Galileo's retina.

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