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Mark Borgerson wrote: > In article <0259afc9-9d19-43c8-977f-ebfabe49cec6@ > 8g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>, dp@tgi-sci.com says... > > > > On Dec 6, 1:25 am, Jon Kirwan <j...@infinitefactors.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:32:15 -0500, Mel Wilson > > > > > > <mwil...@the-wire.com> wrote: > > > >Jon Kirwan wrote: > > > > > > >> But I lose the ability to have good storage for millennia. > > > >> Holes in papertape will easily last a millenia, and more. > > > >> Maybe I want to communicate with neo-humans 10,000 years from > > > >> now and say "hi," eh? > > > > > > >The holes will probably outlast the tape. "Time Team" is one of my favorite > > > >shows, and they're continually trying to deduce, since dirt right here is a > > > >slightly different color from the dirt over there, that Saxons must have > > > >built something out of wood. > > > > > > > Mel. > > > > > > Cool, yet another reason for holes rather than ink spots on > > > paper. > > > > > > Jon > > > > Hmmm, joining the party a bit late but... > > > > Is aluminum foil (I think plain kitchen foil) not longer lived than > > paper? > > Punching it at a 10 holes per mm (fairly dense but surely doable using > > things we have at hand like lasers, PLL-ed rotating mirrors etc.) will > > store >100 megabytes on an A4 sheet... > > Hopefully the morlocks will be smart enough to read that though. > > Just keep that foil away from any acidic or basic solutions! > > If you want real archival storage, go back to the basics. Have > your solenoids indent some good quality clay. Glaze and fire. > You could also get colored patterns for optical sensing by > filling the indentations with colored glaze before firing. > > A well-fired ceramic will outlast your paper tape---especially > if you don't live in a desert area. To make sure it > gets passed on from generation to generation, fashion your > codex in the shape of a number of beer coasters! Nothing > like continued utility to make sure something gets passed > on to the kids! > > If you want to pass on your spoken word, how about an > Edison phonograph with fired ceramic cylinders instead > of wax? > For real duration broadcast your data into space. Observatories are still looking at echoes of the big bang back 12Billion or so years, much long than any material will last unchanged. Recovery may require the technology of tomorrow. w..
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