From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   jjb  writes:   
   > Rich wrote:   
   >> Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:   
   >>> If you just wanted to store a little data for distant future   
   >>> generations, information etched into glass should last longer than   
   >>> info on plastic M-Discs.  You could use a program like Optar to   
   >>> convert into a printable data representation and then use a glass   
   >>> etching kit or laser to 'burn' that to a paper-sized pane of glass.   
   >> Provided, of course, that no one along the eons drops the pane, or   
   >> drops something on the pane, shattering it into a million pieces in the   
   >> process.   
   > Absolutely proven: berry juice on rock in deep rock tunnels.  Lasts   
   > for eons.   
      
   They decay if you expose them to human breathe e.g. by filing hundreds   
   of tourists past them (or in more fragile cases, a few archeologists).   
      
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