PK posted this entry just a couple of weeks ago, which promises incredible 
storage volume for an almost infinite timeframe, in quartz:

https://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1603D&L=RECMGMT-
L&F=&S=&X=2B64D96635C3169495&Y=wayne.hoff%40aer.ca&P=17137



But Jesse is absolutely right about language.  Here's Chaucer's Cantebury 
Tales, which was written only 500 years ago, and it's pretty much a foreign 
language now:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkAfDsjYaWM.  That 
was ENGLISH, not some relative of it!



So, my opinion:  let's use that quartz, but let's also include some kind of 
rosetta stone (millions of pictures?) built into it that allows discovers 
thousands or even millions of years from now to read and understand our 
language.



Now, we also need instructions that allow those future discoverers to 
recognize that the hunk of quartz is actually a data storage device.  So, for 
that, I propose plastic tablets.  It's the only think that will last for 
thousands of years.  Embed the quartz in the plastic and we're good to go.



Rats, I forgot about the reader for the quartz... I guess the plastic tablets 
will have to include instructions on how to build a reader.



Easy!  :)



Wayne Hoff, CRM

Calgary, AB



Opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.

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