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by COL Tatticky » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:18 pm
Also, you should always take advertisement claims with a pinch of salt. Never forget, they are trying to sell you something... And they're more than willing to bend the truth a bit in ways that sound ok at first.
For instance, I'm certain that natural processes can degrade this memory. Mineral deposits or microbial waste, sand and dust microscratching, and even background radiation (including sunlight) can all cause interferances with the reading process. Failing that, is a rock falling on top of the disk natural enough for you?
My point is that there will always be a catch. Even if the anchient Morrigi created an entropy-proof reserve of knowledge for the exact case of their civilization collapsing, who's to say that anyone ever remembered where it is? It isn't exactly the sort of thing that you think about much. Even once found, the data format might be undeciferable without an effort comparible to just researching the tech again from scratch. Besides, for the ultimate in 'destruction of information'... Artificial singularities are potentially within reach for the Suul'ka.
And don't forget the tools involved as well... For example, even if you knew everything about pretty much any modern industry you won't get far without three-phased power. And how exactly are you going to build a microcomputer without a macrocomputer? One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a dataprobe.
Although, it might be that some back-ups have already been found. Just think of it... If you were to build a 'doomsday shelter', what topics would the books in it be on? They'd probably be about primative survival techniques, with barely even a brief mention of anything high-tech -let alone how it works!
And to a civilization as advanced as the anchient Morrigi, fission sounds pretty primative to me.
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