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360 terabytes potential storage and they just sent 3 books? It seems such a wasted opportunity. They could have loaded it up with everything. Arch reported on

360 terabytes potential storage and they just sent 3 books? It seems such a wasted opportunity. They could have loaded it up with everything. Arch reported on this when it happened: https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foundation-announces-our-payload-on-spacex-falcon-heavy-c4c9908d5dd1 https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foun...

zamadatix 8y ago
Theoretically 360 terabytes potential storage, so they could theoretically have loaded it up with a bunch of stuff but in reality they have only ever made them ~3 MB in size specifically for these PR pieces.
- Cpoll 8y ago
  Without having dived into the specifics, I imagine the hard part is writing the data into the crystal (high detail 3D laser etching?), and the crystal is just a high-purity medium.