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The true power of crystals

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Data Saved In Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years:



Most cultural institutions and research laboratories still rely on magnetic tape to archive their collections. Hitachi recently announced that it has developed a medium that can outlast not only this old-school format but also CDs, DVDs, hard drives and MP3s.



The electronics giant partnered with Kyoto University's Kiyotaka Miura to develop “semiperpetual” slivers of quartz glass that Hitachi says can preserve information for hundreds of millions of years with virtually no degradation...



http://www.scientifi...0-million-years



So I now wonder what info (data) are those old crystal skulls holding...
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Even if those do hold any sort of data... there's pretty much no way we'd be able to read it. Remember those tapes NASA couldn't read anymore?
 
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