Re:Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in...
by zhdc1 on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:41AM
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
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Re:Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in...
by jonathanstrange on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:55AM
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Exactly, people still read books by Plato and Aristotle.
Re:Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in...
by boxbag on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:42AM
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How about a million years?
Re:Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in...
by maratd on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:43AM
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Focus on leaving a high fidelity fossil.
Re:Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in...
by Cthulhu_ on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:11AM
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There's some interesting developments in that area, on the one side about leaving warnings at nuclear waste sites (which probably won't work, archeologists were warned about death and curses and such and still went into Tutanchamun's tomb. IIRC some died from a mold spore active in there), on the other about preserving knowledge for the ages (e.g. sapphire disks, 3d / holographic storage). I don't feel like there's a working solution yet, or at least not a high-tech one - chipping out a granite block and keeping it relatively shielded from the weather still seems like the safest bet.
Re:Ask HN: What can you do today that will be significant in...
by majewsky on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:50AM
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> archeologists were warned about death and curses and such and still went into Tutanchamun's tomb. IIRC some died from a mold spore active in there
Correct. I saw a documentary last week about a 3000-year-old grave in Syria where they pumped in fresh air for a week or so before going in to get rid of the fungal spores in the air.