July 21, 2012
Memory disk made from sapphire could last a million years

iheartchaos:

We live in an unprecedented age of information. The problem is that more and more of it lives in a digital form, which in many ways is as fragile as the scrolls in the Library of Alexandria at the hands of Julius Caesar. But if we could store our data in rock like our ancient ancestors, that would be something. Behold, the sapphire data disk that could store our information for a million years.

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(via von-questenberg)

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    This is pretty awesome, but if you read the article they’re saying they’ll spend $30,000 to make a prototype, then...
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