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Then figure out how and where to store the over one thousand volumes that have 1200 pages each.
by jjeaff 1y ago
Then figure out how and where to store the over one thousand volumes that have 1200 pages each.
- interroboink 1y 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 1y 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.