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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by prox on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:46AM (#33463300)
Off world would help, no atmosphere on the moon for instance makes for less deterioration, and a cave system would shield it from radiation.

On earth clay tablets have done a great job : we have tablets 6000 years old, so we know that works. That’s 60% of 10k already. Titanium seems expensive and might be melted down in time of need, like bronze has been often in the past. Clay tablets survived partly because it’s a ‘worthless’ material.

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by wikfwikf on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:37AM (#33463928)
It is 60% of 10k, and 0.0006% of a billion years.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by hanniabu on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:52AM (#33464036)
> On earth clay tablets have done a great job

The ones that survived

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by prox on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:13AM (#33465302)
Yeah, but they didn’t even try preserving it! Lots were found in average storerooms and so on.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by hanniabu on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:41PM (#33469624)
When there's a lot of things to start with, there's bound to be a lot of things to survive by chance even without preserving. A lot of the stuff that survived was accidentally preserved by nature.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by prox on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:52PM (#33471003)
You could say that, but I would point out to its resilience and suitability as a medium for long term information containment. Literally thousands upon thousands have been found. Imagine if one were to try make it last longer :)
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by dredmorbius on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:32AM (#33493649)
With some irony, tablets subjected to the usual destroyer of documents, fire, survive even better as they're vitrified.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by Kuinox on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:46AM (#33464518)
You need to bury it on the moon. There is a reason the moon is full of holes.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by GTP on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:49AM (#33465701)
But can you engrave them with the precision required for miniaturization?
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