> Better yet, let's use 179 of those ancient five and a quarter inch 560 kB floppies! You know, the /floppy/ kind! Then we'd have to dig up an old computer to actually read them, but by the time the time capsule gets re-opened they'd need to dig up an old computer anyway.
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C'mon, this is so embarrassingly low-tech. 179 x 360 kB on 5¼" disks? Whoa. What if, over the centuries, the disks all demagnetize when the earth's magnetic field switches polarity again? The earth is already overdue for reversal. Sheesh -- we wouldn't want Sam to succumb to the utter ignomy of bit-rot. Or what if our future selves are no longer even using electricity, as currently generated by primitive electron/electromotive forces? By then, maybe Stephen 7.0's "Citizens of Tomorrow" will all be running computers powered by the latest Photonic™ technologies. Who knows.

See, you need to update your storage hardware a few generations upwards to a CD-R that's physically etched with the data. No chance of bit-rot there. It'll be etched in teensy-tiny VERY VERY SMALL NANOLETTERS engraved by a direct photo-resist lithographic method, right. I bet you won't need a micron's hair more than 4 terabytes of compressed space to save every last iota of the living breathing S.A.M.


> Oh. One other thing we need is a lampshade that says "Rinkworks" on it.

Plus, you'll need to include an arborite head having the noble, chiseled features of maybe Issachar to actually wear the lampshade.