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If you were in charge of a new Golden Record from modern times, what would you include on it? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We propably could fit linux source code

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

You'd also need to also include our computer architecture, as well as a C compiler, together with its source code.

And then how to reliably store it for hundreds of thousands of years.

Though, we would probably be able to fit it, and a ton of other code, considering our data storage capabilities. The big question would just be the reliability, and redundancy for error correction.