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Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions
- AlienRobot 1y agoThis will be really useful after the nuclear winter.
- dzink 1y agoHow did they come up with this idea?
- macintux 1y agoProbably inspired by the first Michael Bay Transformers movie.
- lmpdev 1y agoIs this article trying to milk an Ig Nobel Prize? If so, they’re very talented at it
- moralestapia 1y agoCan't wait to use the AWS version of this.
- nomel 1y agoPerhaps it will become their cheapest tier of Amazon Glacier? [1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier
- sprior 1y agoLet's call it Amazon Glacier
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoNew cold storage tier?
- sandworm101 1y agoMinimal contract measured in literal ice ages.
- drfuchs 1y ago1979 called, and they want their "Intel Magnetics 7110" one megabit bubble memory chips back. At the time, it seemed that bubble memory would supplant disk, tape, and even core memory (RAM to you). Maybe memristors will happen.
- hnanon12341 1y agoIncredible abstract image.
- 0xbadcafebee 1y ago> The ice media can be preserved for a long time lol I have some bad news
- quietbritishjim 1y agoIce cores have been drilled down to levels that have ice unaffected for millions of years.
- withinboredom 1y agoWell, that ice clearly won't be there for another million. It's already been removed.
- quietbritishjim 1y agoThe point is that ice can indeed preserve information for a long time, if properly stored. The original comment in this thread is a pretty vacuous response to the article.
- mensetmanusman 1y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/19/earth-temperature-global-warming-planet/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/1...
- Mistletoe 1y agoIt’s neat but I can’t think of a worse storage medium.
- lloydatkinson 1y agoThe image at the top implies this involves time travel which would be necessary for the example of creating a bubble message in 1925 to read in 2025.
- speedylight 1y agoHoney turn on the stove I have some files I need to delete.
- baruchel 1y agoReading the title, I immediately thought of Rabelais's "frozen words": https://www.classicalpursuits.com/where-words-unfreeze-the-terra-incognita-of-rabelais/ https://www.classicalpursuits.com/where-words-unfreeze-the-t...
- meindnoch 1y agoI have an even better idea: manipulating growth rings of trees for message storage. If you want to store a 0, you cover the tree with a tarp for a year to stunt its growth. If you want to store a 1, you leave it uncovered. Bandwidth is 1bit/year.
- dtgriscom 1y agoThis isn't going to be durable. Not because of climate change, but because of surface energy. Making a boundary between different substances requires energy, and forces will act to minimize those boundaries. This expresses as surface tension in liquids, where a drop will pull in its borders to minimize its boundary. It also happens with solids; if you pack a ball of snow and leave it for a few days, depending on the temperature it will slowly fuse into ice. Over time, the ice around these information-containing bubbles will slowly move to minimize the surface area of the bubble boundaries, ending up as spheres. It won't be quick, but over decades (again, depending on the temperature) it will happen. So, no, it won't be practical. (I'm sure you're surprised.) (The effect of surface energy is my favorite fact from "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry" at MIT. Professor Witt was excellent; he imparted an enormous amount of information clearly and engagingly.) * https://news.mit.edu/2002/witt https://news.mit.edu/2002/witt * https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/dmsehistory/3.091 https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/dmsehistory/3.091
- HocusLocus 1y agoSo it's only useful for encoding spheres!