if you wanted to archive a terabyte of data in perpetuity, how would you plan to do it?
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Replying to @interfluidity
How long of a perpetuity are we talking about? Serious question.
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Replying to @Pinboard
“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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Replying to @interfluidity
Okay, that narrows it down! Two solutions seem to have worked well in the past are to make the terabyte a holy text that must be transmitted verbatim (though you still get bit rot). Or engrave it onto quartz cubes and build the biggest pyramid you can afford out of them
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Replying to @Pinboard @interfluidity
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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Replying to @Pinboard @interfluidity
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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Replying to @Pinboard @interfluidity
Paper is definitely the storage solution with the best record for longevity. But 1tb in paper is a lot! It would take half a million page according to this (if printed black/white)https://www.quora.com/Visually-how-much-paper-would-a-GB-and-a-TB-of-data-fill-in-terms-of-physical-size?share=1 …
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You definitely want to print black and white, because otherwise you're going to spend a fortune on cyan
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