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Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years (www.techspot.com)

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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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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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