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Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years
Lucas123 writes "A start-up launched a new DVD archive product this week: a disc that it says will hold its data for 1,000 years. The company, Cranberry, says its DiamonDisc product, which can be used in any standard DVD player, is not subject to deterioration from heat, UV rays or material rot due to humidity or other elements because it has no dyes, adhesives or reflective materials like standard DVD discs, and its discs are made from a vastly more durable synthetic stone. Data is laid down on the platter much in the same way as a standard DVD disc, but with DiamonDisc the burner etches much deeper pits. Cranberry said it is also working on producing a Blu-ray version of its 1,000-year disc."
..."The 10 commandments" Remastered Special Edition.
It's the 2 (Synthetic) Stone DVD Version...
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
Coasters have come full circle now.
I remember my mom's ceramic coasters (bone china she called it, which as a 5 year old, creeped me out).
They were pretty durable, and lasted my mom all here adult life. The writing on the bottom was still readable after all those years.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Jeeez, it took long enough to come up with a practical alternative to hieroglyphics carved in stone. So far, that was the best technology for millennial storage. I just want to be certain that I get that 1000 year warranty, in case its just a bunch of empty promises. I don't want to be disappointed 800 years down the road.
We'll see.
Water beats rock every time.
I thought it was rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock. Where'd the water come from?
What are they recording?
The Rolling Stones?
The Stone Roses?
The Stone Temple Pilots?
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
... seems to have been designed to linger.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
... they also make a DVD player that lasts 1000 years?
At $4995 for the burner it better last 1K years too.
They'll come in several varieties:
Water beats rock every time.
No, paper beats rock. There's no water in the game.
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Assuming anybody in the future cares more than a tiny bit, I'd strongly suspect that the file formats(and possibly the disk layout) will be a bigger challenge than the lack of compatible drives.
The surface details on DVDs just aren't all that small, since they have to be easily accessible to ~$50 worth of cheap, mass-market optics, even after some kid gets greasy fingerprints all over them. Unless the future belongs to degenerate savages and murderous rat-men, rigging up a spindle, an optical microscope, and a camera to automatically record the pit structure will presumably be within the realm of a doable for a few decent engineering grads. Assuming, of course, that we don't all have cyborg mecha-vision by that time. It wouldn't necessarily be anything close to fast; but it would be conceptually simple and reasonably economic for anything of some historical value.
If, however, the files on the disk are all AES-256 encrypted, decodable only with the cooperation of a DRM keyserver that was deconstructed by a rogue nanite swarm during the H+ omnipurge of 2076, all bets are off.
from Muad'Dib?
Tightwad. You can afford to buy a new burner once a century.
The Thousand Year Rock
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
I find it all depends on which part of the floor I leave the CD. Near the middle are worst, but surprisingly the ones next to the wall are almost as bad. The ones close the wall, but less near the center seem to survive the best.
In summary,
1) left near doorway = rating 1 star
2) left center of room = rating 1 star
3) left around center or room = rating 3 stars
4) perimeter of room = rating 4 stars
5) left at wall of room = rating 2 stars
6) other (case, desk, special CD container) = rating 2-4 stars
Then let's make the DVDs out of water! Oh wait...
I was going to suggest dihydrogen monoxide, but that stuff is probably too toxic for consumer use.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
Edmund: No, you see, the thing about Heaven, is that Heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go on in Heaven, like, uh, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot plants... Whereas Hell, on the other hand, is for people who like the other sorts of things: adultery, pillage, torture -- those areas.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Five years!? You do realise they're not actually coffee coasters?
No, paper beats rock. There's no water in the game.
Spock also beats rock.
How is this modded "insightful" when the provided link doesn't even work?