I'm curious no one cares to store culture on the computer — maybe in the form of music, movies, and videos? Most knowledge can be derived at some point, but the culture is going to be lost.
Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important?
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#42I would like to save all FOSS which is on the planet, all whitepapers, all mathematical knowledge, and of course Bitcoin's blockchain.
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#43There are two scenarios: a disaster that is bad, but from which humans can recover, and a disaster that ends us. The latter scenario is not entirely pointless: perhaps one day life will evolve again, or aliens will visit, and would it not be good for them to know we were here? It's a civilizational mark carved into the great Tree, "Humans were here." There are several interesting possibilities about how and where suc…
History of the earth and humans and our understanding of the cosmos. I think technology is not that interesting in the grand scheme, other than a record of how far we got.
I guess you would make many replicas on the moon for redundancy against meteorites. They could also broadcast signals to space, altough surely they would be relatively shortlived without maintenance.
I would like to read a story about it.
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#44I would like to save all FOSS which is on the planet, all whitepapers, all mathematical knowledge, and of course Bitcoin's blockchain.
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#45What kind of storage media is the most durable in a powered of state?
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#46If multiple terabytes, you can store a lot of information. All Wikipedia is only 21.23 GB compressed as of 21 September 2022. The English Books from Gutenberg Library are around 40GB. With 1TB, you have already a pretty solid base to rebuild civilization. Then you can go deeper: As of last year, all Library Genesis for nonfiction is 40 TB and Scientific Papers are 78.5 TB. Total Library Genesis seems to be 220TB. Fin…
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#47I would like to save all FOSS which is on the planet, all whitepapers, all mathematical knowledge, and of course Bitcoin's blockchain.
a copy of the blockchain from right before i cashed out please
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#49I would like to save all FOSS which is on the planet, all whitepapers, all mathematical knowledge, and of course Bitcoin's blockchain.
a copy of the blockchain from right before i cashed out please
It will not work. If you were cashed out far before apocalypse than some others high-entropy block will be after your tx. If you were cashed between the nukes have flied up and the first nuke explode than you can not effectively use your value.
Re: Ask HN: What content/knowledge is most important?
#50I'll echo the others saying that "a few terabytes" is utterly massive and could easily fit the English version of Wikipedia several times over, so this isn't much of a constraint. But to take a stab at it: 1. The Bible (original languages and modern translations) 2. All of (English) Wikipedia 3. Medical textbooks 4. nand2tetris 5. Anything not already in Wikipedia about fabrication processes and manufacturing, especi…
Why the bible and not other religious text?
Why include religion at all, which to me did more harm than good.
Why not include books about how to cooperate and collaborate with other ppl and why it’s necessary for societies to survive.