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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"So they told me that, according to the most advanced theories and techniques in every field, based on extensive theoretical research and experimentation, through analysis and comparison of multiple proposals, they did find a way to preserve information for about one hundred million years. And they emphasized that this was the only method known to be practicable: carving words into stone"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is glass except just a bunch of really tiny Stones melted together?