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Re:Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) by BurningFrog on Saturday December 09, 2017 @08:47PM (#15889332)
Even so... the broken fragments would lie next to each other, and with some future technology it's not unthinkable that they could be reconstructed.

Or is there something fundamental I'm not aware of?

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Re:Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday December 09, 2017 @11:04PM (#15889827)
It really depends; entropy is a harsh mistress. The output of a paper shredder can theoretically be reformed into the source paper, but below a certain size fragment there's not enough information left to recover.
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