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A desktop CNC engraver can be had for $500. Stones are cheap. Archaeologists have read engraved stones after thousands of years of neglect!
by danielheath 4y ago
A desktop CNC engraver can be had for $500. Stones are cheap.
Archaeologists have read engraved stones after thousands of years of neglect!
- grayfaced 4y agoAnd how many did they fail to read?
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThe ones where the cavemen forgot to engrave checksum data.
- danielheath 4y agoOf the ones that were stored appropriately, virtually all are still readable. Whether the format it was written in is still comprehensible could be a more pertinent question.
- bluGill 4y agoA fair number only fragments remain. Probably most, though I'm not an archaeologist.
- GnarfGnarf 4y agoYou jest, but here's an idea: print a block of raised letters (like old typesetting) on a 3D resin printer (mirror the characters). Roll a thin slab of potter's clay, say 5"x 8". Press the text against the blank slab, fire the clay in a kiln, and voilà, your bio or other precious document will last like Babylonian clay tablets.
- thakoppno 4y agoI might have to try this with my RSA public key.