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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by gilded-lilly on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:26AM (#33462864)
Why not encode them microscopically, using some kind of easily decipherable code?

The main issue would be loss of language. You’d end up with a gigantic Rosetta Stone of indecipherable gibberish.

Better would be to convert all literature into hieroglyphics, or graphic novels (or both), and then etch them microscopically.

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by areoform on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:37AM (#33462936)
This size will have microscopic features! There is probably a balance between ease of scanning/technological sophistication required to see the pages, cost of etching, and the number of plates overall.

The Long Now Foundation has extensively studied the language loss problem and arrived at a fairly elegant set of solutions.

https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/01/20/linguistic-data-in-the...

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by 6510 on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:08PM (#33470171)
Encode in dna and do roaches with random pages on their back.
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