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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 12 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] 7 points 10 hours ago

Some type of data crystal/diamond sneak it in to or on to a piece of art or jewelry in a museum somehow or maybe stash it in a statue or graveyard someplace that’ll persist and most likely won’t be changed much if at all for that amount of time. The organization that sent me on this mission surely had a dead drop contingency plan they have time traveling tech. Or I leave a clue carved in stone on the grounds of the one day HQ hoping they get the clue and can swap the data crystal out later. 🤷‍♂️