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Tungsten Discs Could Function as Million-Year Time Capsules

2013-10-24 00:06:47| TechNewsWorld

Jeroen de Vries, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a prototype storage system that might last for up to 1 million years. This might be needed if the planet were devastated by a natural disaster, or as a reference for future intelligent life on Earth -- or for visiting aliens. "You must then think about archival storage of between 1 million and 1 billion years," he said.

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