Wikipedia: offsite backups
So, I keep talking about backing up parts of the internet to space - at one point, I just wanted to get a big fusion-fired laser, and blast the contents of Google’s cache towards the nearest star. But, at this point, I’m thinking we should be thinking about putting a spacecraft in a orbit such that it will still be up there tens of thousands of years from now, and backing up the wikipedia to it.
The tricky part is figuring out how to build a spacecraft that will still *work* after tens of thousands of years.. but the clock of the long now people probably have some good ideas on the subject. Anyway, it’s a interesting problem.
November 21st, 2009 at 11:40 am
for $8k you can put up your own satellite into space: http://www.interorbital.com/TubeSat_1.htm