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Answer by user_1818839 for Million-year-old records
Use a physical and chemical process that has already demonstrated adequate lifetime. Bury it in silt in ... maybe not the bottom of the sea, but a physically similar environment in a geologically...
View ArticleAnswer by Li Zhi for Million-year-old records
I like the idea of using doped quartz as the recording media. There's going to be all sorts of trade offs between recording speed and size, and the larger the size, the fewer the number of copies....
View ArticleAnswer by Timotheos Patten for Million-year-old records
Statistically speaking, you'll lose your data, eventually, so the right way to think about it is along the lines of pushing the probability low enough to be acceptable.As for your storage medium, if...
View ArticleAnswer by Dmitriy Polovinkin for Million-year-old records
Here are my thoughts:the information can be stored as a sequence of numbers, if to this sequence add 0(or two..thousand 0) at the beginning - we get the result of division of something (take the speed...
View ArticleAnswer by BlueBall for Million-year-old records
This is a very interesting question. Actually, there are some experiments that use plants and their seeds as storage mediums - http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11248-016-9981-1. For example, citing from...
View ArticleAnswer by Todd Wilcox for Million-year-old records
Found a religionThis question exposes many kinds of problems. Most of (very good) answers have centered on the problem of actual preservation of information in a physical medium, and how that medium...
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Answer by MolbOrg for Million-year-old records
Readed all answers and comments. Correction codes are in some. In some are question about structure and decryption that information.FractalsFractals, or at least principle is very useful. There are 3...
View ArticleAnswer by Miguel Bartelsman for Million-year-old records
Use satellites.Put a large amount of satellites in space, each with a complete copy of the data to ensure that redundancy is high in case of unforeseen events.Put the satellites beyond geosync orbit,...
View ArticleAnswer by Rab for Million-year-old records
Single point of failure will not work. You need to make the data store mobile and self-replicating to give it any credible chance of (a) surviving and (b) being found after 1 million years.The problem...
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel M. for Million-year-old records
Turn the moon into storageThe moon has a surface area of 37.9 million square kilometers.According to WolframAlpha, this is equal to 3.79*10^19 mm^2.The moon has stayed mostly the same over the past few...
View ArticleAnswer by DudeFace for Million-year-old records
Just brain storming.1 You might be able to broadcast the information with EM waves. If it's a million light years away, or hits a mirror half a million light years away that might work. Would be cool...
View ArticleAnswer by Greenstone Walker for Million-year-old records
Put the data on some sort of storage (doesn't really matter what) and stick it in a spaceship. Send the ship on a slingshot around the event horizon of a black hole so that time dilation means a...
View ArticleAnswer by user22074 for Million-year-old records
In today's world, let us look at the Rosetta Project.Imprinted on a disk made of a nickel alloy that contains 13,000 pages of information on human languages. It is 3" across and expected to have a...
View ArticleAnswer by Nobody for Million-year-old records
I assume it will only be read after that million years, not during it. Because if it's also read during a millions years, then you would be better off just recopying the data to newer storage media and...
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Answer by Thorsten S. for Million-year-old records
Use microfiche technology. But instead of using films you use ultrahard plates (made from corundum, cubic boron nitride or synthetic diamond) and use laser technology to etch minimized letters into the...
View ArticleAnswer by The Square-Cube Law for Million-year-old records
You probably already know that information is stores in hard discs, solid state drives (SSD's), flash memory etc. as a stream of zeroes and ones.You could literally sculpt that out on some plains or...
View ArticleAnswer by AmiralPatate for Million-year-old records
Let's be real, in a million years data storage may be done in the form of hairspray for all we know. How many people still have floppy disk drive? And that was only 20 years ago. The new generation...
View ArticleAnswer by Aify for Million-year-old records
Use 5-dimensional, ultra high density silica glass discs. In theory, these discs are able to store data forever without reduction in data integrity.Not only is this possible, it's already been done....
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The universe is brutal on information. I'm looking for ways to preserve about an exabyte of information for a million years. I'm looking for answers rooted in reality without any lucky circumstances...
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