dolanbaker wrote:According to this link it's a type of long lasting DVD
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/9 ... 1000-yearsBut what if you had a backup medium that was nigh indestructible, almost immune to inclement conditions, and made of stone? You’d have the Millenniata M-Disc, which is basically a 4.7GB DVD with a data layer made out of stone-like metals and metalloids. The idea is that conventional, home-made optical discs have a very soft recording/data layer that isn’t very resistant to heat, humidity and light, while the M-Disc on the other hand has a much tougher data layer that can withstand the test of time. M-Discs can’t be burnt with your current DVD burner — melting stone requires a laser that’s five times stronger than normal! — but on the flip side, M-Discs are backwards compatible and can be read by normal DVD drives.
Great idea, I've never heard of them, might get one as I have already had some first generation CDs fail to read now.
But there are other things that google has found that are also called mdisk, so I'm not sure if this is what GH is referring to.
pstarr wrote:dolanbaker wrote:According to this link it's a type of long lasting DVD
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/9 ... 1000-yearsBut what if you had a backup medium that was nigh indestructible, almost immune to inclement conditions, and made of stone? You’d have the Millenniata M-Disc, which is basically a 4.7GB DVD with a data layer made out of stone-like metals and metalloids. The idea is that conventional, home-made optical discs have a very soft recording/data layer that isn’t very resistant to heat, humidity and light, while the M-Disc on the other hand has a much tougher data layer that can withstand the test of time. M-Discs can’t be burnt with your current DVD burner — melting stone requires a laser that’s five times stronger than normal! — but on the flip side, M-Discs are backwards compatible and can be read by normal DVD drives.
Great idea, I've never heard of them, might get one as I have already had some first generation CDs fail to read now.
But there are other things that google has found that are also called mdisk, so I'm not sure if this is what GH is referring to.
Me either?????
I was hoping that one of the three media choices offered at the survivorlibrary.com web site was such a mdisk. I guess not, must buy on conventional media? But then how does one do the transfer? "M-Discs can’t be burnt with your current DVD burner"
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Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
"....but more likely scenario would be the entertainments are discovered and the authorities use up the power every night watching old movies on the monitors until battery charge fails and not much useful knowledge is transmitted to the descendant generation."
Newfie wrote:I side more with Tanada, presuming the fall is deep and long. With all our current technology we have great trouble reading the old languages. They are written in stone, we can see the figures, we can not decipher.
You need a certain level of complexity to read the complex messages. A simple agricultural society, even if they could see the images, or hear the voice, would likely not be able able to understand the words or concepts.
If the fall is not so deep then the technological solutions have merit.
baha wrote:Dudes, if we can just make it a few more years we can have that Holographic lady in the long gown to magically appear and teach us what we need to know. She's cute too
Imagine what a hunter/gatherer would think of that!
KaiserJeep wrote:Would anyone care to speculate what it would be like or what would be possible when multiple human minds contain a sizeable subset - or all - human knowledge and are interconnected via a network? Perhaps this gestalt of multiple humans and machines is the species that replaces Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
Far from them replacing us, I believe we will hybridize with computers and datastores, with the result being more than the sum of the individual pieces.
onlooker wrote:We do not need some artificial machine like network to integrate us and facilitate our evolution. We need to revive ancient spiritual beliefs that manifested reverence for the natural world, a recognition of how we are all part of creation and thus united in a profound way and a sense of humility and awe
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