nsane.forums Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Researchers designed a special "hard disk" made of sapphire with miniaturized information on the surface. The challenge is a hard one: warning the future generations about nuclear waste beneath. Traditional “Hard Disk Drives” (HDD) last for some years, if they are quality and defect-free units, but French researchers and designers are working on some kind of completely different storage medium: a disk that’s hard, that’s made of sapphire and that should last for million of years to let the offspring of humanity know that there is nuclear waste buried beneath the ground. The sapphire “hard disk” prototype has been created by ANDRA, the French nuclear waste management agency: the unit (one of its kind) costs 25,000 dollars to make, and stores information with platinum-based etchings. The disk itself is actually made up of two different disks (20 cm across) of industrial-grade sapphire molecularly fused together. The data stored on the sapphire disk contains 40,000 miniaturized (not digital) pages, and all the future archaeologists will need to read them will be a simple microscope. ANDRA researchers tested the disk durability by immersing it in acid to simulate the ageing process: the “unit” should last 1 million year at least, the researchers stated, while they hope to prove a durability of 10 million years soon. The sapphire hard disk is one of the solutions ANDRA and other European organizations dealing with nuclear waste are trying to develop to answer a very difficult question: how to inform the future generations about the proximity of a nuclear deposit and the right way to deal with the radioactive waste it contains? Furthermore, if the 10-million years hard disk proved to be a good solution to store data about an underground deposit of nuclear fuel, there would be still another challenge to overcome: ANDRA researchers say that right now they have “no idea what language to write it in”. ANDRA and the other European organizations are in fact searching for answers coming “from other parts of society”, while the sapphire disk prototype is being shown at the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 held in Dublin. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 14, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 14, 2012 ANDRA researchers say that right now they have “no idea what language to write it in”. Sean Paulish. :troll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 What will be its capacity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 A hard disk that lasts 10 million years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (cock)roaches, too. ;) A hard disk that lasts 10 million years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . until it floods again (ask Thailand - law of Moses.) :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyWalkerX Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 and the hard disk will be sent from generation to generation~ :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 14, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 14, 2012 What will be its capacity? I don't think it's meant to go retail. But as you are asking: The data stored on the sapphire disk contains 40,000 miniaturized (not digital) pages, and all the future archaeologists will need to read them will be a simple microscope. Means it's not exactly a digital data type disk. The size can be just anything possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Nice place to keep the porn :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 wirte once only. no thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Nice place to keep the porn :PYeah, for your next generation.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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