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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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[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

Good luck finding a reading device for it in 100y, let alone 14 billion years. I doubt there will be a human civilization a few thousand years from now. :)

Remember how humanity had problems understanding the meaning of ancient egypt hyroglyphs from just a few thousand years back until The Rosetta stone was found and some really clever and dedicated guy put an awful lot of work into the translation? Good luck with JPG images or pdf documents or even ASCII text.

It's OK to make fun of non-existing/ not yet market ready devices, no?

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As long as as humans haven't succumed to brainrot and still have capacity for math and logic, we can figure it out. It's encoded, not encrypted.

The classic problem of long-term nuclear waste warning messages is about conveying information over cultural barriers. This is a concrete data type, not interpretation of vague contexual meanings from pictograms. Math and logic don't change while cultures do. Images are far more retrievable than the meaning of an image.

[–] kossa@feddit.org -2 points 1 day ago

Wait until humans find a way to divide by 0. Suddenly Cambrian explosion in science, immediate Warp civilization and whatnot.

Then they find this chip, but cannot decipher it, because they don't understand mathematics not able to divide by 0 😅.

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