Someone put the Bible onto a quartz disc...

[Mycroft]

....As well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Newton’s Opticks, the Magna Carta and aboiut 359.7TB of other stuff. The disc will safely preserve this data for the next 14 billion years.


http://gizmodo.com/optical-data-sto...utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[HonestJoe]

Or until the last drive capable of reading it breaks down, whichever comes first.

 

[Tumah]

Joy...
Another waste of time, brought to you by "People who enjoy wasting your money, and the letter 5"

 

[Mycroft]

Joy...
Another waste of time, brought to you by "People who enjoy wasting your money, and the letter 5"

The point wasn't to preserve the documents on it, the point was to develop an optical data storage device that securely preserves information over long periods of time.

 

[Tumah]

The point wasn't to preserve the documents on it, the point was to develop an optical data storage device that securely preserves information over long periods of time.

Its good that I won't have to worry about forgetting my bank code in 14 billion years from now when I might really need it.

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

Its good that I won't have to worry about forgetting my bank code in 14 billion years from now when I might really need it.

But don't you want your spoiled descendants using their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpop's money?

 

[Jedster]

Its good that I won't have to worry about forgetting my bank code in 14 billion years from now when I might really need it.

Well in 14 billion years you will been recycled 116666666667 approximately ( assuming you get the 120 on each of your shivas); so your might well appreciate said data storage.
So be thankful.

 

[Tumah]

But don't you want your spoiled descendants using their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpop's money?

Those kids are spoiled rotten by their parents. Let them get up off the air-field relaxation seat get into their transdimensional portation devices to the local galaxy office and find a job like everyone else. Enough leeching Bitcoin II's off their grampa.

 

[Nietzsche]

Its good that I won't have to worry about forgetting my bank code in 14 billion years from now when I might really need it.

Oh come on. You're a Jew. We all know you've got your(and all ours) bank numbers stitched on the back of your eyelids.

 

[Tumah]

Oh come on. You're a Jew. We all know you've got your(and all ours) bank numbers stitched on the back of your eyelids.

Yes, but 14 billion years is plenty of time for my eyelids to disintegrate and I need to make sure I don't loose a penny of y̶o̶u̶r my money when that happens.

 

[Iti oj]

Its good that I won't have to worry about forgetting my bank code in 14 billion years from now when I might really need it.

We have nuclear facilities with similar life spans ...

 

[Iti oj]

The point wasn't to preserve the documents on it, the point was to develop an optical data storage device that securely preserves information over long periods of time.

Probably good for nuclear facilities. ... anyways I thought that the medium of quartz was the break through not the life span, though I bet it's use for space technology too.

 

[Riverwolf]

14 BILLION?! Okay, I understand the need to preserve things for long periods of time, but... that's 9 billion years after Sun dies! Would it survive being consumed? Plus, Andromeda will have merged with us by then! Will this thing survive if our Black Hole becomes a Quasar?

 

[RRex]

Plus, Andromeda will have merged with us by then!

I thought it was the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy.

 

[Riverwolf]

I thought it was the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy.

? I've never heard of that galaxy. Andromeda is significantly bigger than Milky Way and on a collision course with us. It's set to hit about 4 billion years from now.

 

[Mycroft]

14 BILLION?! Okay, I understand the need to preserve things for long periods of time, but... that's 9 billion years after Sun dies! Would it survive being consumed? Plus, Andromeda will have merged with us by then! Will this thing survive if our Black Hole becomes a Quasar?

If it were launched into space now it could have conceivably left the galaxy by then anyway.

 

[RRex]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980216.html