Re:Store it all in a single iron bar! (Score 1)

...just be sure to engrave the exact precise ambient temperature, air pressure, humidity, light pressure (how precise are we getting here?)and so forth on the *back* of the bar for when you read it out.

Oh, and make sure the bar doesn't lose any dimension to oxidation or other factors. (I.E. Rust, diffusion, proton decay???) The amount of material actually lost is vanishingly small, true, unless you took your iron bar from the body of a '72 Pinto, but again, how precise do you need it to be? Say you store a CD-R worth on there. Call it 650MB. Turn 650MB into a single decimal number. That's a required precision of 665,600,000 decimal places. (Assuming no compression system.) Whoa. The genetic thing is looking better and better...

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