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I'm sure it is massively more expensive but why not put some probes on the moon and have those probes syndicate. Maybe have a couple of those probes become rea
by agentgt 10y ago
I'm sure it is massively more expensive but why not put some probes on the moon and have those probes syndicate.
Maybe have a couple of those probes become read only after a couple of centuries (to avoid a hack/attack of overwriting and blowing away all data).
The moon has very few impacts with asteroids and very little geo activity.
- Retric 10y agoSpace is really harsh on electronic storage making long term storage impractical. Sending hard copies like those shown is ridiculously expensive, roughly replace everything you want to send to the moon with solid gold for a cost estimate.
- agentgt 10y agoYes I'm sure the tech is not there yet and I'm not saying make a hard copy and send it to space.... but how far are we off? Hundreds of years or decades? Is there an iterative process... perhaps satellites at first (since landing is generally complicated). I guess it also depends on what you want to store and what you use to store. There are crystals that could store data for pretty much eternity [1]. The problem with shoving stuff in a hidden salt mine is that no one (ie aliens, future people etc) will know where it is where as on the moon or satellite you can effectively have a much more salient sign of here is the data (ie what is worse the data is destroyed or the data is never found?). [1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/technology/5d-data-storage-memory-crystals/ http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/technology/5d-data-storage-m...
- gambiting 10y agoThe problem with the moon is that it's being constantly bombarded by small rocks - anything you place on the surface will be eventually hit. So you want to bury things - and that's a completely different scope of problem than just landing things on the moon.