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0 pointschrisco2553y ago0 comments

We have the most extensive data available for recent years, though. Ice core samples are also nothing new, they've been extensively studied for decades. Many of these cores are carefully removed and placed in ice cold storage warehouses: https://qz.com/1590747/an-antarctic-ice-core-may-show-1-5-mi...

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Moksha1083y ago

The data for recent years may be lost if the ability to read the encoded 1s and 0s is lost.

chrisco255OP3y ago

Again, the physical ice core samples are permanently kept in giant freezer warehouses. And we know how to store binary archive data for thousands of years securely.

Moksha1083y ago

In 10000 years the earths crust moves warehouses are destroyed. The discovered binary has to be decoded and translated. Humankind has changed, evolved or devolved in ways we cannot yet know. Looking forward from now the two proposed future reality are equally valid. We have no way of knowing that outcome.

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Moksha1083y ago

The data for recent years may be lost if the ability to read the encoded 1s and 0s is lost.

chrisco255OP3y ago

Again, the physical ice core samples are permanently kept in giant freezer warehouses. And we know how to store binary archive data for thousands of years securely.

Moksha1083y ago

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