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Off world would help, no atmosphere on the moon for instance makes for less deterioration, and a cave system would shield it from radiation. On earth clay tabl
by prox 4y ago
Off world would help, no atmosphere on the moon for instance makes for less deterioration, and a cave system would shield it from radiation.
On earth clay tablets have done a great job : we have tablets 6000 years old, so we know that works. That’s 60% of 10k already. Titanium seems expensive and might be melted down in time of need, like bronze has been often in the past. Clay tablets survived partly because it’s a ‘worthless’ material.
- wikfwikf 4y agoIt is 60% of 10k, and 0.0006% of a billion years.
- hanniabu 4y ago> On earth clay tablets have done a great job The ones that survived
- prox 4y agoYeah, but they didn’t even try preserving it! Lots were found in average storerooms and so on.
- hanniabu 4y agoWhen there's a lot of things to start with, there's bound to be a lot of things to survive by chance even without preserving. A lot of the stuff that survived was accidentally preserved by nature.
- prox 4y agoYou could say that, but I would point out to its resilience and suitability as a medium for long term information containment. Literally thousands upon thousands have been found. Imagine if one were to try make it last longer :)
- dredmorbius 4y agoWith some irony, tablets subjected to the usual destroyer of documents, fire, survive even better as they're vitrified.
- Kuinox 4y agoYou need to bury it on the moon. There is a reason the moon is full of holes.
- GTP 4y agoBut can you engrave them with the precision required for miniaturization?