• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Why not digital backups? Like hard drives, tape (eg. LTO), etc. They take up far less space and are less fragile.

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      2 months ago

      Risk of corruption from electromagnetic disturbance in the event of a nuclear exchange, these docs should be capable of being retrieved even in a catastrophe scenario if for no other reason than to service future archeological record.