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Comment by jjeaff

10 months ago

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.