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Designing a future proof repository of knowledge
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Think about the galactic encyclopedia from Uplift Saga or the STC from 40k.

Just better. How would you make data storage & access last thousands or even millions of years?

My personal idea: engraved & enameled steel plates inside fired clay containers filled with pitch. The container then goes into a box with gravel with dozens more of its kind and stored in, for example, a salt mine.

Using modern radar & sound imagining this storage could be read without opening the jars but a more primitive civilization could also just smash the jars and read the engraving directly.

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