No one has ever stored any non trivial amount of data from a computing system that long that we know of. You would in fact be the first person to do so.
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#12Encode it in your X chromosome. Bonus points if your descendants can hallucinate the images and video without any assistance. That would be useful if there's an apocalypse, but they may be burned as witches.
Just perfect
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#13Without the videos, papers would be your ideal solution at a low cost, videos however, I believe the best way would be open sourcing it and putting it in the internet, if they are worthy enough, generations will keep it around for as long as your ideas will live in them.
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#14I would say AWS Glacier Deep Archive. It works out to $1/TB/month, except for retrieve costs. Pick a region away from fault lines and coasts maybe though.
Jeff Barr agrees too: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-as-an-eternal-service/
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#15Print on laminated paper.
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#16Images and text: archival pigment prints on acid free paper.
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#17If you have the budget then try one of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Mission_Foundation
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#18One option is to use DVD media designed for archival use, with a non-oxidizing gold layer, e.g.: https://www.verbatim.com/prod/professional-optical/archival-...
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#19I would say AWS Glacier Deep Archive. It works out to $1/TB/month, except for retrieve costs. Pick a region away from fault lines and coasts maybe though. Jeff Barr agrees too: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-as-an-eternal-service/
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#20Just use a regular spinning hard drive, not any kind of solid state media. Solid state media must be charged and accessed periodically to retain its contents, like RAM, but billions of times slower.
Spinning hard disks use aluminum platters coated in an extremely purified layer of iron oxide (rust) all of which is super chemically stable. Once written your data will remain stable for hundreds of years until it is slowly ripped off the disk over time by gravity.
These drive are mechanical and the mechanics will fail far earlier so the data will need to be extracted from the disk directly by some invasive means. People already do this now to extract valuable data from damaged disks.