I was was imagining some sort of record that could withstand a wide variety of conditions.
Harry On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:06 AM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been thinking, that if one really wants information to last at least >> millions of year then it should be fossilized. >> > > Prof. George Church (Harvard) is developing methods of storing digital > data in DNA. He has stored up to 700 TB per gram so far. He stored his own > biology textbook in DNA and made 70 billion copies. (He described this as > "the largest printing" of a textbook in history.) Under proper storage > conditions DNA will last for hundreds of thousands to millions of years. > With multiple copies and file compare routines you can easily detect and > exclude corrupted copies. You could fit all of the data in the world into > ~100 g of DNA. >
