Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years

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• dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s Glass-R but got a few bucks more you can get a Glass-RW

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  • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just watch out for Glass-RAM, it doesn’t work in most drives.

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    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Excuse me, I was looking to download more glass RAM. Is it free?

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So it’s great for archival storage. This is exactly the type of thing I’m interested in if it was cheap enough.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What kind of files would you use so it could be read in 10 000 years?

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      XML/HTML

      and for your next question: Wikipedia.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So what was my question?

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    • Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All my porn

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t that be funny to be tasked with getting the data off a 10 000 year old piece of glass only for it to be dragon/car vore?

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My media collection. I really only need like 50 years tops. At which point I’ll be dead or to senile to enjoy it. Unless I can back up my own consciousness onto it. Then… That.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting replies but I’m just wondering what file format to use.

        Don’t we have troubles opening stuff from 4-5 os versions ago?

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• Otakulad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True, but being very easy to make would hopefully keep costs down, allowing you to have multiple plates.

  Also, this may not be for home use but companies that need to store data for years.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could see applications for home use. Media backup comes to mind.

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    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great is really gonna love this 36K remaster of Shrek. I know I would

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      • tpfm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great what? Aunt?

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      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha maybe they will. I was thinking more like family photos.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s roughly 1,500 years of descendants. Well past even Futurama’s time!

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• z00s@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Bob, why the hell did you format this as ‘Jim sux dicks’?! You know that’s permanent, right?”

  10K years later

  Alien captain: Anything to report?

  Alien: We need to find a being named “Jim”, sir…

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ve got lots of Roman dick drawings, so it’s our turn to leave our mark on the future

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  • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why so negative? It could just as well be humans that find such a thing 10K years later

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unlikely at the rate we’re going. I’d give us 100 years, at most.

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• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the glass is nothing special, each piece would cost cents and be like burning CD’s back in the day, except infinitely recyclable.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Backup wikipedia once a year to a crystal and then civilizations thousands of years from now can comb through it as they wish.

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  • quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This… well roughly. People here say muh file formats etc. But you’re really going for the maximum lifetime, if its uncompressed text, it wouldn’t be too hard to reverse engineer if future people figure out that there’s data on there at all. The harder part may be extracting the data at all. We could also include instructions on how certain file formats can be read.

    It’s is is still a great long term archive storage, and more likely the data would be transfered to a better storage device within a few 100 years (if we’re talking about archiving the present for future archologists that is)

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How amazing would it be if we came across some tomb that was just filled with thousands of scrolls detailing the whole history of Rome and Greece and all those other empires from the BC years?

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• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So its cd but fom the future

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CDs aren’t expected to left more than 100 years in storage.

    This is more like stone tablets for the future.

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