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Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK successfully stored the entirety of the human genome sequence onto an indestructible 5D optical memory crystal no bigger than a penny. The indestructibility claims are no joke since the discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, cosmic radiation, and even direct impact forces of 10 tons per cm2.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Only headache is assuming whoever found it could read it, and parse it.

Requires microscopy and a compute model of the right standard, right?

Like to actually parse the bits...

Sure super aliens could but could post apocalyptic humans in a few centuries, who have regained enough stability to care about such things?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like anyone advanced enough to have use for ancient human DNA data will also be advanced enough to decode unfamiliar storage formats

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My mom had use for human DNA back in the '80s, and she was a dumbass

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I gave your mom loads of human DNA back in the 80's

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Greg?? Great to see you man. Kick the heroin?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What is this "care" thing you refer to? Human idea not found . . . /s