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Rigorous Science Can Crystals be used to store data?

In many science fiction stories, crystals where used by ancient alien civilisations to store information that could last millions of years. For example, in Stargate, "control crystals" that looke...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Notaras‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Notaras‭

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Q&A What size EMP device would be necessary to wipe all data in a Google-sized server farm, without major physical damage?

I'm not sure if it's even feasible, but I have a server farm in my book, of a size that puts it on par with Google's. I want to wipe out all the data stored on the hard drives, without destroying ...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by John S.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by John S.‭

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Q&A Long Term Zircon Data Storage

Question How can Zircon be used to record data for generations of life forms? Requirements Must be able to store the data with little to no loss of it, for a least 541 million years The data in...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Amoeba‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Amoeba‭

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Q&A Write once perpetual storage, is such a thing possible?

Is it possible, with modern, or easily foreseeable technology, to build a compact digital data storage device that cannot be erased without removing the data store? The storage in question to be us...

10 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Ash‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ash‭

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Q&A How would an alien civilization realistically monitor earth?

If a Kardashev Type III alien civilization wanted to monitor the earth (and its inhabitants' progress) via a satellite/orbiting object, how would they realistically transmit data from this object? ...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Oli Fog‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Oli Fog‭

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Q&A Can data be sent using Gravitational Waves across solar systems?

According to wiki, The speed of gravitational waves in the general theory of relativity is equal to the speed of light in a vacuum Not bad enough to send data (message or information) to ot...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Karan Desai‭

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Q&A Transporting/storing information within the human body (other than brain)

This is for a science fiction story I'm writing. Are there ways to transport information like a book, or a computer program, within the human body (not in the brain)? Say, by storing the informatio...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Ameet Sharma‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Ameet Sharma‭