'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billions of years

Re:'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billi... by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:55AM (#11144705)

I remember reading about the Rosetta disk. It's a good start, the fact that it's human-readable makes it much more likely to be useful. The "bootstrapping" idea is really cool also.

There's still some assumptions- that future civilisations will have some knowledge of some of the languages we speak nowadays and so on, but they're probably safe to make, more or less.

There's always the chance that one of those things will only be found by some alien civilisation visiting the Earth in the far future, when there's no humanity left, let alone civilisation- but that's probably a very remote possibility to plan for. Although I guess Voyager 1 already has taken it into account.

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Re:'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billi... by wpietri on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:49PM (#11156372)

One of the Rosetta disks ended up on the Rosetta probe. If things go according to the ESA's plan, the probe will finish on the comet, meaning that the disk could live a very long time indeed.

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