For a long time, people have been concerned about the preservation of various things in case something happens on Earth
What is the value of an initiative in whicha repository was created with seeds of various plant species. So, one of the largest is located in Norway - it is called the “Doomsday Vault”. To date, it contains 1,145,693 “backup copies” of seeds.
Microsoft decided to do something similar. It will replenish the same repository, only a collection of world musical works will also be located there.
Songs will be recorded for enoughan unusual carrier is quartz. This is due to the fact that such plates can be subjected to various external influences: baked, boiled, scratched, polluted, exposed to electromagnetic radiation, etc.
It is reported that the size of each quartz plate will be 75 × 75 mm, and the thickness will be 2 mm.Up to 100 GB of data can be written to one such media.At the same time, it can be stored for "many thousands of years".
The first entry will enter the vault in 2023.