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I have always wondered about how long our current knowledge will be preserved in the future. Would most of it be lost in time, as happened numerously in history.

Pyramids have stood for thousands of years, but knowledge and information had no equivalent so far. Maybe this may change it if it is indeed the real deal. Of course, we need to set it to read-only mode.

1 posted on 08/20/2011 8:48:17 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Also probably EMP resistant..


2 posted on 08/20/2011 8:53:03 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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...and can last for thousands of years without losing information.

How did they confirm this? ;-P

3 posted on 08/20/2011 8:54:15 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!!)
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I have always wondered about how long our current knowledge will be preserved in the future. Would most of it be lost in time, as happened numerously in history.

Hey SunkenCiv,

This thread is pertinent to your interests.

4 posted on 08/20/2011 8:57:43 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

What happens if someone drops it...WHOOPS?!


6 posted on 08/20/2011 9:01:04 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

bump.


7 posted on 08/20/2011 9:03:18 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer....

true


8 posted on 08/20/2011 9:05:23 PM PDT by No!
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Yes, but can it withstand being thrown at an iceberg at the North Pole and pop up with a hologram of Brando?


9 posted on 08/20/2011 9:06:13 PM PDT by lurk
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I hwve heard that only about 5% of the materials in the great Alexandria library have come down to us. Among those lost are the dialogues of Aristotle. More to the point, more than half the old movies are already gone. Not much reason to think that they in their present formats will be available in a while.


11 posted on 08/20/2011 9:11:10 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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Are we getting close to where we once were? ;o)

Excerpt: “Record Keeper quartz crystals have tiny triangular shapes embedded or raised on the surface. Sometimes there’s just one and sometimes the crystal is covered with them. Some are outlined with repetitive shapes making a chevron pattern. Just as the name implies, record keepers store ancient wisdom. “

http://www.fossilcartel.com/blog/2010/04/self-healed-and-record-keeper-quartz-crystals/

I have seen many natural crystals with these triangular chevron shapes - very hard to see. Most people never do as you must look for them. They are on the facets that make up the point - to be seen, you must angle the surface to light just right. They are barely discernible, but they are there on may natural crystals.

our radios started out with cystals.

All fascinating.

12 posted on 08/20/2011 9:13:31 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I have always wondered about how long our current knowledge will be preserved in the future. Would most of it be lost in time, as happened numerously in history.

I'm with you.

I've recently taken an interest in the Roman Republic/Empire and those guys had no shortage of scribes, poets, bureaucrats, secretaries, shorthand....you name it, they wrote it down.

But they wrote much of it on wax tablets and then you have fire, earthquakes, political re-writing/wholesale erasures etc. and, of course, just the general mindless destruction by the Vandals and other invaders.

It's funny when you find out that the best source for Caesar is Caesar himself from his war dispatches (that he later collected into a book that became a Roman bestseller).

That man knew how to promote himself!

14 posted on 08/20/2011 9:19:40 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Just do not get the crystals excited.


15 posted on 08/20/2011 9:24:21 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Are the crystals blue?

17 posted on 08/20/2011 9:32:31 PM PDT by I see my hands (Keep your sunny side up!)
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The glass memory can withstand temperatures of up to 1,800 degrees F, is unaffected by water and can last for thousands of years without losing information.

And we thought the Rosetta Stone was hard to crack! We'd better hope our civilization survives because I don't really see any post-apocalyptic monkey-man descendants of ours kicking up a chunk of crystal memory in the ancient rubble of New York City and saying to his buddy, "Hey, Og, let's see if we can find a message from our ancient ancestors stored at the molecular level in this piece of glass."

18 posted on 08/20/2011 9:41:38 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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If they can make this practical and capable of storing 512 GB on a solid-state drive (SSD) about the size of a Type III Compact Flash card, you KNOW Apple would want it for the next generation of MacBook Pro laptops.
20 posted on 08/20/2011 10:15:59 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Pyramids have stood for thousands of years, but knowledge and information had no equivalent so far

Actually the oldest baked clay tablets predate the pyramids

Progress: going from am information storage system that lasts 5000 years to one that can be corrupted by a fridge magnet.

23 posted on 08/21/2011 12:48:16 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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bump


24 posted on 08/21/2011 2:04:41 AM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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Shucks, I knew I should have filed my patent sooner.

That's my home computer set up. The server is the one on the right. Data transfer is achieved through the special reserve data transmission fluid. Very high transfer rates can be achieved in the direct fluid to neuron receptor networks, the only draw back being at the receiving end, occasionally resulting in fluid memory dumps to the porcelain memory buffer. That's a software problem.

25 posted on 08/21/2011 4:32:39 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Babylon 5 Computer Storage Crystals.


26 posted on 08/21/2011 4:54:10 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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A hardened storage medium is necessary. I don't own one that will be guaranteed to last for more than a few decades, paper.
31 posted on 08/22/2011 4:35:26 PM PDT by allmost
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