Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years - eviltoast

Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK successfully stored the entirety of the human genome sequence onto an indestructible 5D optical memory crystal no bigger than a penny. The indestructibility claims are no joke since the discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, cosmic radiation, and even direct impact forces of 10 tons per cm2.

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    2 months ago

    WORN: Write Once Read Never.

    Soon to be improved as,

    WORLD: Write Once Read at Later Date.

    It gets a bit harder to market if they’re not sure if they wrote successfully:

    Write Hopefully Once Read Eventually