Jeroen de Vries, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a prototype storage system that might last for up to 1 million years. This might be needed if the planet were devastated by a natural disaster, or as a reference for future intelligent life on Earth — or for visiting aliens. “You must then think about archival storage of between 1 million and 1 billion years,” De Vries said. “We should be storing the wealth of human knowledge, but [that] needs to evolve with the technology,” said Tirias Research analyst Jim McGregor.
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Tungsten Discs Could Function as Million-Year Time Capsules
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 23, 2013 03:06 PMJeroen de Vries, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a prototype storage system that might last for up to 1 million years. This might be needed if the planet were devastated by a natural disaster, or as a reference for future intelligent life on Earth — or for visiting aliens. “You must then think about archival storage of between 1 million and 1 billion years,” De Vries said. “We should be storing the wealth of human knowledge, but [that] needs to evolve with the technology,” said Tirias Research analyst Jim McGregor.