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You are a stranded time traveler on a mission to retreive 100 Terabytes of important historical information to save the future; How would you get this data intact into 100 years in the future? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, here's the deal: You've managed to acquire the data, but disaster strikes, and your time machine is destroyed by an enemy time traveler team. This is crucial historical data that you'll have to get into the future to avert the apocalypse. Due to the constraints of the space-time continuum, all time travelers staying outside of their "home" time for longer than 1 year will die, so you have exactly 1 year to prepare. How do you make sure the future discovers the data, while preventing the enemy time traveler faction from stealing the data?

(Remember: don't just chuck it in a hard drive and bury it in a forest somewhere, the data will degrade)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Important question. Is this a 1 traveler vs multiple travelers situation or can I have teammates as well?

You know what? I don't even need teammates. I'm going to start a HUGE mass awareness campaign (it will be on the news, uploaded as a torrent on everywhere, etc.) for people to selfhost this data on their system and compensating them automatically by a script system with a fuck ton of money. The script will check if the data is still is in it's original state every month, and if it is then those selfhosters will get a lot of cash as a compensation. Ofc this script checking system will run on a bunch of different servers, like on thousands of raspberry pi 473883 chips located all over the world, so the time travellers won't find all of these verification systems in time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

You only have yourself on your team.

There could be like anywhere from 1 to 20 enemy time travelers. Don't worry tho, they all die in 1 year (just like you do) due to the constraints of the time travel.

The point is: You can't just publically draw attention to yourself and post the location of the data to make it easier for the future to find it, because I know someone is gonna be like "Just run for elected office and store it in the government archives". I wanna make the question more challenging.