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Antarctica would work well for physically isolating the installation from those without some baseline technology, but I imagine it would be harder to build a lo
by jlgreco 14y ago
Antarctica would work well for physically isolating the installation from those without some baseline technology, but I imagine it would be harder to build a long-lasting facility there. Less radiation and meteors, but a great deal more moisture, wind, etc. There are some other places on earth that are more "stable", but I don't think most of those places would do a good job of keeping looters and vandals from getting at it.
Machine readable yet long lasting is indeed a big problem.
- caw 14y agoRedundant Array of Intelligence Depots :) You'd just have to make multiple copies and put them in various locations. If you're going through the trouble of making 1, you might as make more than 1, in case the primary gets destroyed.
- jlgreco 14y agoGood point. I think you would have to choose the number of depots carefully though. If you only have a single very famous depot then you can perhaps count on it being remembered in legend, particularly if it is somewhere very unique (the south pole perhaps). More depots increase redundancy but could perhaps reduce the "interesting" factor. After a certain point though you could probably have enough depots that, since they are all over the place and constantly being discovered, they would stay in the minds of humanity.