I want to find the way to preserve information very long-term, to send the message to any future civilisation, which may appear on Earth in next hundred million years.
For it, I would like to know the speed of atom diffusion in metals in millions of years—that is, what is the minimum chunk of metal, which will be able to preserve a bit of information. Any ideas?
Yes, I have to add that I explore it as a solution of the x-risks problem, not the way to create new x-risks. :)
The solution is to send for future earthlings civilisation a lot of information about human DNA, global risks and our culture, so they will return us to life and escape our mistakes.
I know the surface of gold actually fluctuates. Prob titanium coated with iridium would be most stable. There are also ongoing studies of using lattice vacancies in diamonds that are pretty far advanced.
This always brings us back to the “communicating with aliens” problem too. Most settle on visual cues, and write it in binary. I still like to think of spectral lines as the most basic communication technique.
Have a story idea about finding an alien vessel that had a catastrophic fire inside, and all the instrumentation and computing storage has been destroyed. All we find inside is a book with iridium pages, that has fantastic theories on cosmology, planetary and stellar mechanics, etc. Turns out it is a childs book, made to be durable!
I want to find the way to preserve information very long-term, to send the message to any future civilisation, which may appear on Earth in next hundred million years.
For it, I would like to know the speed of atom diffusion in metals in millions of years—that is, what is the minimum chunk of metal, which will be able to preserve a bit of information. Any ideas?
Something dynamic. Like a machine which constantly checks the inside stored data in many copies. Produces a new independent copy every now and then.
Zapps every evolution which occurs in the reachable Universe, manages black holes, stars and so on.
A static solution is too vulnerable.
Yes, I have to add that I explore it as a solution of the x-risks problem, not the way to create new x-risks. :)
The solution is to send for future earthlings civilisation a lot of information about human DNA, global risks and our culture, so they will return us to life and escape our mistakes.
I know the surface of gold actually fluctuates. Prob titanium coated with iridium would be most stable. There are also ongoing studies of using lattice vacancies in diamonds that are pretty far advanced.
This always brings us back to the “communicating with aliens” problem too. Most settle on visual cues, and write it in binary. I still like to think of spectral lines as the most basic communication technique.
Have a story idea about finding an alien vessel that had a catastrophic fire inside, and all the instrumentation and computing storage has been destroyed. All we find inside is a book with iridium pages, that has fantastic theories on cosmology, planetary and stellar mechanics, etc. Turns out it is a childs book, made to be durable!
As an old saying goes—No x-risks, no fun!