Comment by morning-coffee
Comment by morning-coffee 16 hours ago
Yeah. That and
> a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years
Clearly it hasn't been verified to be able to survive for billions of years, but it is thought to be able to survive for billions of years based on extrapolation from tests done over time scales multiple orders of magnitude smaller.
Diamonds are forever, but they fare poorly when they meet a hydraulic press (source: Hydraulic Press Channel) or a chemist who wants "real diamond water" (source: NileRed).