Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years 416
Lucas123 writes "A start-up launched a new DVD archive product this week: a disc that it says will hold its data for 1,000 years. The company, Cranberry, says its DiamonDisc product, which can be used in any standard DVD player, is not subject to deterioration from heat, UV rays or material rot due to humidity or other elements because it has no dyes, adhesives or reflective materials like standard DVD discs, and its discs are made from a vastly more durable synthetic stone. Data is laid down on the platter much in the same way as a standard DVD disc, but with DiamonDisc the burner etches much deeper pits. Cranberry said it is also working on producing a Blu-ray version of its 1,000-year disc."
What the bets the first release will be... (Score:5, Funny)
It's the 2 (Synthetic) Stone DVD Version...
Fun with ceramics (Score:3, Funny)
Coasters have come full circle now.
I remember my mom's ceramic coasters (bone china she called it, which as a 5 year old, creeped me out).
They were pretty durable, and lasted my mom all here adult life. The writing on the bottom was still readable after all those years.
Finally, a convenient alternative to pyramids... (Score:5, Funny)
1000 years? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:1,000 years? (Score:1, Funny)
Water beats rock every time.
I thought it was rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock. Where'd the water come from?
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:2, Funny)
I Hate ROCK Music (Score:5, Funny)
What are they recording?
The Rolling Stones?
The Stone Roses?
The Stone Temple Pilots?
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35?
This new archival format from Cranberry... (Score:4, Funny)
... seems to have been designed to linger.
Re:Presumably... (Score:5, Funny)
... they also make a DVD player that lasts 1000 years?
At $4995 for the burner it better last 1K years too.
Stone DVDs? (Score:4, Funny)
They'll come in several varieties:
Re:This new archival format from Cranberry... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:1,000 years? (Score:5, Funny)
Water beats rock every time.
No, paper beats rock. There's no water in the game.
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully in 1000 years it will be appropriately categorized as "fiction."
It's not as if that's written in stone!
Re:Presumably... (Score:3, Funny)
The surface details on DVDs just aren't all that small, since they have to be easily accessible to ~$50 worth of cheap, mass-market optics, even after some kid gets greasy fingerprints all over them. Unless the future belongs to degenerate savages and murderous rat-men, rigging up a spindle, an optical microscope, and a camera to automatically record the pit structure will presumably be within the realm of a doable for a few decent engineering grads. Assuming, of course, that we don't all have cyborg mecha-vision by that time. It wouldn't necessarily be anything close to fast; but it would be conceptually simple and reasonably economic for anything of some historical value.
If, however, the files on the disk are all AES-256 encrypted, decodable only with the cooperation of a DRM keyserver that was deconstructed by a rogue nanite swarm during the H+ omnipurge of 2076, all bets are off.
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stone DVDs? (Score:1, Funny)
And here I thought they would just come in Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary. Shows what I know.
Re:1,000 years? (Score:2, Funny)
from Muad'Dib?
Re:Presumably... (Score:3, Funny)
Tightwad. You can afford to buy a new burner once a century.
they can sell it in Germany as (Score:4, Funny)
Re:1,000 years? (Score:5, Funny)
I find it all depends on which part of the floor I leave the CD. Near the middle are worst, but surprisingly the ones next to the wall are almost as bad. The ones close the wall, but less near the center seem to survive the best.
In summary,
1) left near doorway = rating 1 star
2) left center of room = rating 1 star
3) left around center or room = rating 3 stars
4) perimeter of room = rating 4 stars
5) left at wall of room = rating 2 stars
6) other (case, desk, special CD container) = rating 2-4 stars
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:5, Funny)
Then you have to spend eternity in North Dakota.
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:1,000 years? (Score:3, Funny)
Then let's make the DVDs out of water! Oh wait...
I was going to suggest dihydrogen monoxide, but that stuff is probably too toxic [dhmo.org] for consumer use.
Nonono... Blackadder explained it all (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1,000 years? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:1,000 years? (Score:4, Funny)
No, paper beats rock. There's no water in the game.
Spock [youtube.com] also beats rock.
Re:If you're actually interested in buying these.. (Score:1, Funny)
How is this modded "insightful" when the provided link doesn't even work?
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:4, Funny)
And commandment 666 says that Satan can read and write everything, but isn't allowed execute privileges.
Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score:3, Funny)
Eternity in Heaven:
"I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-"
"What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously.
"This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-"
"The same bird every thousand years?"
Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said.
"Bloody ancient bird, then."
"Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-"
"-limps-"
"flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-"
"Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"How?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have they got to do?"
"Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-"
"-in the space ship-"
"And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly.
There was a moment of drunken silence,
"Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale.
"Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-"
Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly.
"-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music."
Aziraphale froze.
"And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will."
"My dear boy-"
"You won't have a choice."
"Listen"
"Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face."
- Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman