To endure, our most complex knowledge must rely on physical simplicity.
Chapter 1

Ancient monuments that refused to turn to dust

Chapter 2

Modern vaults protecting the ingredients of life

Chapter 3

Messages sent to the deep future and the stars

Chapter 4

Mechanical clocks designed to tick for thousands of years

YOUR GOAL

Master of How to build a forever machine

Ch 2 · Modern vaults protecting the ingredients of life
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007skaty The Rosetta Project preserves human languages on a micro-etched metal disk.

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007skaty Memory of Mankind

Under the salt of Hallstatt, our stories etched on clay will wait a million years.

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To endure, our most complex knowledge must rely on physical simplicity.

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007skaty The Memory of Mankind project stores human records in Austrian salt mines.

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Svalbard's frozen backup drive

007skaty Opened in 2008 in Norway, this natural deep-freeze facility uses permafrost and solid rock to keep seeds at minus 18 degrees Celsius.

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The Arctic World Archive's analog digital storage

007skaty Anyone can read this archived data using only light and a magnifying glass.

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BETA

007skaty Spin the dial of topics to master the art of timeless conversation.

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Fun Fact

Svalbard vault: The first withdrawal from the seed vault was made in 2015 to replace seeds lost in the Syrian civil war.

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Glossary
seed (noun)
The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant. Norway's Arctic vault in Svalbard has preserved over 1.3 million of these crop varieties since 2008.

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Gossip

What is most crucial to save for the future?

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Quiz

What is the target storage temperature inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?

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007skaty The Arctic World Archive stores digital data on physical film

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On which remote Arctic archipelago is the Global Seed Vault located?

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007skaty The Svalbard Global Seed Vault safeguards backup copies of the world's seeds.

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Which company developed the long-lasting photosensitive film used in the Arctic World Archive?

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How is data retrieved from the Arctic World Archive if modern computer systems fail?

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Which foundation created the Rosetta Disk to preserve thousands of human languages?

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What instrument is required to read the micro-etched text on the Rosetta Disk?

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What material is used to print the texts and images for the Memory of Mankind archive?

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In which European country is the Memory of Mankind archive located?

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