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Comment by willis936

10 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.