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Very interesting topic.

For preservation, encode the data in the DNA of a bacterium, replicate it massively and put them in some kind of suspended animation (hand waving wildly).

Getting the meaning of the data is another matter. I wonder whether it will be possible to create species of bacteria that can decode the above DNA and present it directly accessible to human senses - ex: bacteria that change color, form shapes, etc.



I don't think genomes are anything like as big as the requirement, e.g. this link gives 0.35GB as the size of the human genome:

http://www.utheguru.com/fun-science-how-many-megabytes-in-th...


Nothing stopping you from making a much larger one! Or a lot of different ones, if it's automated.




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