Question - Lifespan of digital media
- From: "Beacon of Truth and Light \(maybe\)" <foo@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:00:24 GMT
I have a question for physicists/material scientists: As we know, digital
media eventually
degrade until they're unreadable. Even the best won't last more than a
hundred years in conventional storage conditions.
But what if we took the most inert and resilient media - say a gold plated
glass-master DVD - and stored it on a satellite in a vacuum. Would this last
indefinitely? After all, the temperature would be negligible, so even the
most gradual of processes (such as the glass 'melting' and rolling into a
ball) would take millions of years.
>-<Phant
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