Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions

 (cell.com)

58 points | by __rito__ 4 days ago

13 comments

  • meindnoch
    2 hours ago
    I have an even better idea: manipulating growth rings of trees for message storage. If you want to store a 0, you cover the tree with a tarp for a year to stunt its growth. If you want to store a 1, you leave it uncovered. Bandwidth is 1bit/year.
  • baruchel
    2 hours ago
    Reading the title, I immediately thought of Rabelais's "frozen words": https://www.classicalpursuits.com/where-words-unfreeze-the-t...
  • 0xbadcafebee
    9 hours ago
    > The ice media can be preserved for a long time

    lol I have some bad news

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  • sprior
    11 hours ago
    Let's call it Amazon Glacier
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  • drfuchs
    10 hours ago
    1979 called, and they want their "Intel Magnetics 7110" one megabit bubble memory chips back. At the time, it seemed that bubble memory would supplant disk, tape, and even core memory (RAM to you). Maybe memristors will happen.
  • speedylight
    3 hours ago
    Honey turn on the stove I have some files I need to delete.
  • hnanon12341
    9 hours ago
    Incredible abstract image.
  • lmpdev
    12 hours ago
    Is this article trying to milk an Ig Nobel Prize?

    If so, they’re very talented at it

  • lloydatkinson
    3 hours ago
    The image at the top implies this involves time travel which would be necessary for the example of creating a bubble message in 1925 to read in 2025.
  • Mistletoe
    8 hours ago
    It’s neat but I can’t think of a worse storage medium.
  • AlienRobot
    12 hours ago
    This will be really useful after the nuclear winter.
  • moralestapia
    12 hours ago
    Can't wait to use the AWS version of this.
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  • dzink
    12 hours ago
    How did they come up with this idea?
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    • macintux
      10 hours ago
      Probably inspired by the first Michael Bay Transformers movie.