Scientists Have Created a Disk That Can Store Data for a Million Years

[wolfnowl]

This may be better in the Coffee Corner, but anyway.  Sure beats the longevity of floppy disks, but will anyone be able to read these a million years from now?  Not many 3 1/2", 5 1/4" or 8" drives around anymore.

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-created-a-disk-that-can-store-data-for-1449918529

[Frans Waterlander]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Josh-H]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Of course with storage that lasts a million years you appreciate the irony of that statement

[francois]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Get cryogenized and wake up in 1 million years… then sue the scientists if the disks can't be read anymore!
 

[BernardLanguillier]

Get cryogenized and wake up in 1 million years… then sue the scientists if the disks can't be read anymore!
 

Taking inflation into account you'll be rich so don't forget your friends at LL!

Cheers,
Bernard

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

From Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal):
"The first humans with proto-Neanderthal traits are believed to have existed in Europe as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago"

So - are we clear what a timeframe of 106 years really means, which is roughly 2-3 times the timeframe mentioned above?
Its the time we need to evolve into a new species ...

Cheers
~Chris