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You could even make it radiation tolerant by printing it.
by willis936 2y ago
You could even make it radiation tolerant by printing it.
- nine_k 2y agoBe certain to use acid-free paper [1]. The typical cheap bright-white paper of today will have hard time staying in a good condition in 100-200 years. Ideally go for the ultra-durable cotton-rag paper used e.g. for paper money. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper
- lanna 2y agoRelevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/
- jjeaff 2y agoThen figure out how and where to store the over one thousand volumes that have 1200 pages each.
- interroboink 2y agoFrom "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"[1]: What would happen if I print all this down at the scale we have been discussing? How much space would it take? It would take, of course, the area of about a million pinheads ... All of the information which all of mankind has every recorded in books can be carried around in a pamphlet in your hand — and not written in code, but a simple reproduction of the original pictures, engravings, and everything else on a small scale without loss of resolution. Need a good magnifying glass, though (: [1] https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf
- yencabulator 2y agoYeah electron microscopes are very much not "practically indestructible" on the scale of civilization-wide disturbances. Going from "25,000x -> encyclopedia on pinhead" to "100x (microfilm scale) -> encyclopedia on a 5x10cm metal sheet" is probably a better bet.