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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by pmontra on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:27AM (#33463497)
> 6.7 million plates will probably weigh a lot. So off-world copies might need to use an alternative encoding scheme.

For the Moon and Mars, carve them into stone there. You'll have to defend against meteor strikes so they'll be carved and stored deep underground. No idea about seismic activity on those bodies.

For outer space, maybe it's pointless because finding, boarding, unloading an interstellar probe and sending the cargo back home is not easy unless you have very advanced interstellar ships. An orbit around the sun could be an easier place to spot. The Library of Ceres or the Library of the Troians?

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by akie on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:39AM (#33463950)
Not sure if serious or sarcasm.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by burnished on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:37AM (#33465555)
What about that seemed sarcastic? It read as a practical solution to an unlikely problem.

Orbiting the sun seems like a pretty stellar solution to the whole "keep something close and visible but safe without maintenance" problem.

Plus, think of how exciting it would be for a future civilization to discover that an object orbiting the sun was not a lump of rock!

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by krisoft on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:30AM (#33466346)
> they'll be carved and stored deep underground.

But of course you need some marker then on the ground so people know where to look for it later if they want to read the data. Maybe some artwork? A giant monolith perhaps?

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by ASalazarMX on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:01PM (#33468880)
A giant pyramid, they can last thousands of years even in our aggressive environment, much more in the weak Martian weather.
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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by krisoft on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:02PM (#33473713)
I love that. Should we dig in the Cydonia region on Mars? :)

Perhaps at the D&M pyramid?

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia04745-the-cydonia-dm-pyra...

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Re:ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Po... by ASalazarMX on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:06PM (#33477005)
I'd start with the pyramid, but there's a risk of trying to dig up a regular mountain, which would be very wasteful. Maybe we should dig instead the Face of Mars after all, but who knows what other alien faces are there that we can't recognize? Let's dig everywhere!
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