Comment by willis936

7 months ago

You could even make it radiation tolerant by printing it.

Then figure out how and where to store the over one thousand volumes that have 1200 pages each.

  • From "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"[1]:

      What would happen if I print all this down at the scale we have been
      discussing? How much space would it take?  It would take, of course, the
      area of about a million pinheads ...  All of the information which all of
      mankind has every recorded in books can be carried around in a pamphlet
      in your hand — and not written in code, but a simple reproduction of
      the original pictures, engravings, and everything else on a small scale
      without loss of resolution.
    

    Need a good magnifying glass, though (:

    [1] https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf

    • Yeah electron microscopes are very much not "practically indestructible" on the scale of civilization-wide disturbances.

      Going from "25,000x -> encyclopedia on pinhead" to "100x (microfilm scale) -> encyclopedia on a 5x10cm metal sheet" is probably a better bet.