You can stimulate wear on different types of materials and get a general idea of how long it would last. This isn’t plastic in a dvd.
Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This grinds my gears any time that a product is touted as lasting X time. Did you put it through a typical use case or scenario for that X time? No? Then you cannot definitively say that it will last that long.
Based on their bullshit statement, I can last 7 years pounding someone’s ass relentlessly without pause for any reason. Trust me bro.
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Any volunteers for testing the claim?
incompetent@programming.dev 1 day ago
I could go for a good ass pounding.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you can get me safely to .999 C, slow me down, and get me back to Earth at .999 C, sure. The entire trip for me would only be about two years, provided a consistent 1 G of acceleration. Just please make it so that reversing acceleration doesn’t completely screw me, so my spaceship doesn’t have to do a complicated flip a bit after the halfway point on each trip. I’m certain that wouldn’t be good for my stomach.
arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, people do predict things based on evidence. Galileo didn’t actually go to outer space and verify that the earth was going around the sun.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Didn’t they think in those days that your eyes sent beams out to touch whatever they were looking at?
I wonder if he thought his eyes were sending beams out into space.
arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t see how that’s relevant here.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
If his eyes were sending outrays, they did go out into space.
But that’s not actually how it works.
I think it is just a fun way of thinking about it.
In reality, things from space were travelling to earth to interact with Galileo’s retina.
beveradb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Oddly specific fetlife bio
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unsure if joke or not, ha. I don’t even remember what I set in my bio for FL, its been a couple years since I set that account up…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Beyond that, the sun has about 5 billion years before we might not be able to starlift it back to a “younger” state, so The Earth and Venus may not exist at all if we don’t get our asses in gear for sustainable intragalactic life in the next century or so.
BanMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am failing to connect the two time scales you mention.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The storage device can’t outlast the Sun.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
there is some chance that earth may be ejected from the orbit into the space when the time comes, in which case this device could theoretically survive, but its users definitely won’t.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The degradation of materials is pretty well understood. If it’s truly cut from a well known material with zero factors that could effect that degradation, it’s mostly safe to make en educated wish.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I’ll remember this
grindemup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“zero factors that could effect that degradation”
So in other words, only a completely unrealistic estimate can be made? After all, our sun is not going to be the same in 5 billion years, so unless the material comes along with a solution to maintain the material’s temperature (as per the manufacturer’s website the longevity is temperature-dependent) then 14 billion years sounds rather unlikely.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You don’t take into account external factors like that. This is like saying “oh your watch battery will last an entire year? What about if I launch it into the sun‽‽”
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Honda won’t honor my 10-year powertrain warranty just because I yeeted my 2-year-old Civic off a bridge into salt water!
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You can put it on a spacecraft, and fling it at a bunch of star systems. Also preserving knowledge is still one of our hardest topic to solve. After the resources wars, what will computing even look like? Will we even make it another 3k years? How will we warn the next inhabitants of our pitfalls? Surely anything containing rubber gaskets will be ruined, all capacitors will have leaked. Any iron will have rusted.
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I don’t think the point is that you can sue them if it only lasts 13 billion years, but the under current conditions it’s projected lifetime is 14 billion years. Which is a very big number, meaning it’s pretty much guaranteed it won’t break in 100, 1000 or 10000 years.