Billion Year Storage Media

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 14, 2013 @12:48AM from the built-to-last dept.

Thorfinn.au writes "Even though the data density of digital information storage has increased tremendously over the last few decades, the data longevity is limited to only a few decades. If we want to preserve anything about the human race which can outlast the human race itself, we require a data storage medium designed to last for 1 million to 1 billion years. In this paper a medium is investigated consisting of tungsten encapsulated by silicon nitride which, according to elevated temperature tests, will last for well over the suggested time."

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Nice atomic structure by nospam007 · 2013-10-14 00:49 · Score: 5, Funny

But as we know, you can't trust atoms.
They make up everything.
1. Re:Nice atomic structure by Crudely_Indecent · 2013-10-14 01:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That's like asking how many insane asylums are in a crazy person...
  
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Wow! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-14 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow, a slashdot article with a straight-up link to the paper. No multi page article with embedded flash ads, no 'science journalism' minced down through a chain of successively dumber news outlets, no PR bullshit. Just the paper.
Submitter, I'm impressed.