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.
These marketing types shouldn’t be allowed to call anything ‘indestructible’ until they’ve given it to my kid to play with for a week.
Throw it in my pocket with my keys and my spare pocket sand. It’ll be destroyed.
Rusty Shackleford??
Shi shaw!
Plot twist: it destroys your child. Not physically, morally.
With these new indestructible powers, your child enslaves the entirety of mankind. Forced to adopt a bewildered child’s point of view, humans spend all day with their families and friends, get ample sleep, share food and housing, laugh, cry, and find unbeatable protection just by being near those they love.
People love and lift each other to new heights of unshackled peace. Sciences and arts flourish and humanity enters unprecedented phases of discovery, health, and empathy.
But because your child is the villain of this story, all the politicians and capitalists declare war on your indestructible child. They all lose and die. The villain wins. Everyone celebrates.
The end.
He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.
He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.
Edit: almost forgot. We would have to spend slightly longer than is healthy, playing Minecraft.
How bizarre. When you edit a comment (in Voyager) it appears as a reply. Sorry for the spam.
Edit: I hereby pay tribute to thefartographer. One who may be good with maps, or the controlled capture of light, or perhaps merely their own miasma.
Edit it again! Put me in the comment!
He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
He’s got my vote lol
“Stores data for billions of years!”
Have you tested it?
“Yes”
For how long?
“…”
Careful, it may very well kill your kid and upload them to the cloud
5 billion years from now some archeologist reconstructing the data found on a usb stick floating in the asteroid belt only to (gleefully) find out it was a porn stash they found.
Now we ofc all know this amazing find under its famous name ‘Rosetta Bone pizza delivery service’.
Just enough space for a install of Windows and one AAA title game.
Only headache is assuming whoever found it could read it, and parse it.
Requires microscopy and a compute model of the right standard, right?
Like to actually parse the bits…
Sure super aliens could but could post apocalyptic humans in a few centuries, who have regained enough stability to care about such things?
Wow, Kryptonians were really ahead of the curve.
And the goa’uld, and everyone on Babylon 5…
This is how we make the magic orbs a reality
Magic orbs already exist.
They are quite attuned to one spell in particular: Liquify Organs
Well on our way to the God Emperor’s stolen journals now
Cardassisn optolythic data rod.
IT’S A FAKE!
If all of this came true at an affordable consumer price, I think I would build a new computer just to use it
if this comes even semi consumer grade Internet archivists (and pirates) are gonna have a field day
Hence my need for a new computer to take advantage of this lol
They say “billions of years” but that sounds like just the sort of thing a stray cosmic ray would ruin.
Maybe they’re planning on using a checksum for error correction like they do with RAID.
On that timescale, what are the odds that the checksum is still reliable?
Why would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
Checksums are redundancy.
Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…
Yes Mr smarty pants, if all copies of data are corrupted the data is lost. More redundancy is more protection.
It isn’t writable
So? ROM uses checksums too.
Say checksum again
What would be the point? You would just know that the data is invalid. You couldn’t fix it
Use the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
You can’t
That’s not what a checksum is
Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
Can’t argue with that logic.
I guess I will go back to using dd to hack the Pentagon
Yeah, great can I buy it? No? Okay another 10 years then.
can i get this for my phone?
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Fits fine in the “three body problem” novel.
More on the serious side of this news, I can’t imagine the speed of writing or reading, but shouldn’t be very fast, or am I wrong?
Well I assume writing is one-time, so the speed is not really an issue
