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>>>Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-)

A nanofice "reader" is literally just a microscope, isn't it?. Probably a very good microscope, which may or may not be difficult, given the technology of the time, but generally thought to be understandable. You'd store a bunch of this 'nanofiche' in a place, and have some diagrams/example documents with small text getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and the curious people/aliens would (hopefully) understand the idea, know enough about optics to magnify, and boom, they've got the data.




i love this idea of storing a trail of smaller and smaller data, almost forcing them to invent microscopes to keep reading...


"Hurry up with that new microscope! I need to find out what happens to Frodo!"


Frylock, don't touch my computer


why force them, when you can teach them? Lay the basics of geometry, optics, glass etc. is human readable format, with ever smaller fonts.




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