Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK successfully stored the entirety of the human genome sequence onto an indestructible 5D optical memory crystal no bigger than a penny. The indestructibility claims are no joke since the discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, cosmic radiation, and even direct impact forces of 10 tons per cm2.

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    1 day ago

    Human genome would be a handful of gigabytes, depending the file format, compression and so on… But it can hardly fill 1 of those 360 TiB.

    Indestructible? Yeah, sure…