if you wanted to archive a terabyte of data in perpetuity, how would you plan to do it?
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Most reasonable SF answers here include digging trenches on a redundant number seismically stable planetary bodies that are sufficiently far away from catastrophic stellar phenomena, but that probably only buys you maybe a billion years?
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You can also search the digits of pi for the terabyte and then just bookmark the starting point. That way the data will never be lost, just harder to find
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“indefinite” meaning it’s not like nuclear waste warning signs that are supposed to outlast our civilization, but as long as our civilization has a kind of continuous existence, it should be available. think of case law or scientific publications as comparables.
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How long do you expect our civilisation to last? If history is anything to go by we're now talking about a couple of thousand years at most?
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