Yes, indeed, let's hear it for the Norsam Rosetta drive, where "all" you will need to read the disk in 10,000 years is an electron microscope.  This is the only reasonable medium for inventories and labels for the above-ground, dry casks used to store nuclear power station's spent plutonium fuel rods (half-life: 10,000 years, give or take a few.)

Although, I wonder: even though viewers will be able to read the etchings on the Norsam titanium disk (in digital *and* analog), will they understand.  It seems doubtful that English or any other current language will exist in 10,000 years.  We have trouble understanding Shakespeare from 500 years ago.

It's not my personal worry (whew!) but we are responsible to think of our descendants.

Gordon E.J. Hoke, CRM, IGP
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