if you wanted to archive a terabyte of data in perpetuity, how would you plan to do it?
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All digital media is out, so you need a hard copy. Cave paintings seem to age well, but you're going to need a lot of caves. Carved stones are durable and at least stackable. And if budget is no limit, it would be hard to go wrong with mile-high letters on the Moon
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For 100% durability, encode it into the genome of a sexually transmitted disease, and it will last as long as humanity. But the tricky part there is genetic drift, unless you figure out a way to make it functional. Personally I'd go with a foundation, a vault and acid-free paper
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