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GnarfGnarf
on Aug 8, 2010
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Ask HN: How would you store 5TB of data for 50 yea...
Use ion beam deposition (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_beam_deposition
). You can inscribe 20,000 pages on a 5" nickel disk. The data can be read by any civilization that can build an optical microscope. It will last for millennia.
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