General / Off-Topic A glass disk to store the data of the humanity

Patrick_68000 · Feb 18, 2016

13.8 billion years of longevity, and 360 terabytes of capacity --- http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11018018/5d-data-storage-glass

Asp Explorer · Feb 18, 2016

A bit more modern than these babies

Surfinjo · Feb 18, 2016

These discs can potentially last for so long because glass is a tough material which needs a lot of heat to melt or warp it, and it's chemically stable too.

I was under the impression that glass is actually a very slow moving liquid. So the claims of its stability might need clarification.

Patrick_68000 · Feb 18, 2016

Asp Explorer said:
A bit more modern than these babies

http://s11.postimg.org/3zpeh9zlv/image.jpg

How contradict you

Patrick_68000 · Feb 18, 2016

Surfinjo said:
I was under the impression that glass is actually a very slow moving liquid. So the claims of its stability might need clarification.

Most of the silicate glasses have relaxation time to ambient temperature which exceeds the age of the universe. I read on the Wikipedia

bootsam · Feb 19, 2016

Surfinjo said:
I was under the impression that glass is actually a very slow moving liquid. So the claims of its stability might need clarification.

Creep.

(not you, obviously

Thats what the process you refer to is called)

Minonian · Feb 20, 2016

The only difference between a modern optical or magnetic disk and this, its write only. Considering the fact its supposed to use as data archive that's not a problem! But i wonder? How we going to read this, let's say a 1000 years in the future?

Asp Explorer said:
A bit more modern than these babies

http://s11.postimg.org/3zpeh9zlv/image.jpg

Now you mention it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

Its disk contained 3,75 MB and weighted a ton.

Patrick_68000 · Feb 20, 2016

Minonian said:
The only difference between a modern optical or magnetic disk and this, its write only. Considering the fact its supposed to use as data archive that's not a problem! But i wonder? How we going to read this, let's say a 1000 years in the future?

Now you mention it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

Its disk contained 3,75 MB and weighted a ton.

http://www.fredsullivan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/RAMACDiskAtComputerHistoryMuseum.jpg

I want the same at home

Minonian · Feb 20, 2016

Patrick_68000 said:
I want the same at home

GAH!

To be more serious this 360 Tb baby is big, and resistant enough to contain your genetic information digitalised, and the whole sum of your memores. The only question remains how you use up this information, to build a human beign, with your memories? that's true he is not going to be you, trough his eyes is you not going to see the world, his eyes going to be his eyes. That person is just going to be your twin.

And yet? This is the closest thing we can ever get to immortality. And no this is not Sci fi. To read and imprint memories from / into a living mind, is already possible. So as, to read genetic information. All we need to refine the process.