Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Digital data has the potential to remain completely stable for thousands of generations with constant copying to new hardware (lemmy.zip)

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In reality it is more complex but the possibility is there

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's always 5D Optical Data Storage, which might store data in glass for a long, long time. (It's not really 5D; it's composed of discrete nanostructures which have five attributes.) You would only have to write to a new disc every N billions of years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's actually pretty crazy