Scientists Record The Human Genome to a 5D Memory Crystal

This memory crystal can store data in 5 dimensions and keep it safe for over 300 quintillion years - Scientists have just utilised the technology to store and preserve the entire human genome. Could it serve as a near-infinite lasting memory of the human race?
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[@thekettle3534]

I love how every peice of advanced technology always returns to the humble record player

[@1999Fabion]

Something about recording things with a bunch of holes / grooves is very comforting for some reason

[@1999Fabion]

Like, fuck yeah you funky little 3D punch card orb

[@suirall]

even better, it's a punch card, you're just punching very smalls holes with a laser lol

[@Xahnel]

Physical storage is safer and more long term than electronic.

[@BKsunstar]

And yet we still haven't made batteries that last long

[@newstreak]

360 terabytes? thats like, 3 whole COD games

[@ehombane]

yep, not that much. just 720 sd cards that I just installed in my phone for fun, since I do not really need it. .

[@calebmitchell9060]

not including dlc

[@rohitsaha371]

oyy , what's the reading speed ? wondering tho ...🙆

[@saaofficial5415]

​@@rohitsaha371probably like 2kb/hr 😅

[@BrianSkinny-n5f]

Terabytes bro….. not gigabytes. Try 180 by the way. It’s alright I’ve made silly mistakes too lol. I’m an idiot by nature.

[@hawtiebobby]

Some future kid frantically hitting the crystal with a hammer to delete his Super Google search history as his parents walk in to confiscate his augmented reality pod.

[@Sudarshan.primodial_balance]

😂

[@LoomniSlatic]

Why is this so funny😂

[@ronrandallberonilla8807]

Just join Helldivers to redeem yourself 😂😂😂😂

[@MikeGamba-gc7hi]

No matter how much technology we have changes Children will never change

[@acardenasjr1340]

Every future includes pods of some kind...

[@NotoriousNickNorris]

I read about these decades ago. Glad to hear this technology hasn't been forgotten.

[@kazuma2814]

90s-00s, Human Genome Project, read it on a green, Life Science textbook from a school in the US

[@alterego157]

82 years of non-stop HD video... it could record everything a person saw their entire life. Fascinating. Technology is magic.

[@АнтонЛеднёв-и1я]

Or ALMOST every episode of Lost😂

[@hectorpascal]

As Arthur C. Clarke wrote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[@ahmadmedakka1173]

Well, thats a waste of 82 years they'll never get back 😂

[@alterego157]

@@ahmadmedakka1173 Probably, but still fun to think about 😁

[@ahmadmedakka1173]

@@alterego157 yeah guess so 🤣

[@wanderer7361]

Future Archeologists: What interesting gems. They were probably used ritually.

[@muqeo]

lmao truuuu

[@Atlas3060]

Human Scientists: "We did it, we encoded our DNA on a crystal to be saved forever! Even if our species dies, something of us lives on!" 500 thousand years later some alien chick uses it, shapes it for her necklace, breaks the crystal. Gleegluck: "Mar'sha you can't possibly believe these...Hooman Crystals you bought will align your chakra and restore your energy. That's all fairy tales from the sales person. I bet they're just rocks." Mar'sha: "You never let me dream Gleegluck, you're such a Scorpio!"

[@princedest1ny]

… so rainworld then

[@paranaenselol]

​@@Atlas3060 did you watch the video? The thing is almost indestructable

[@ModernInka]

LITERALLY 😂😂😂

[@Iowa599]

More likely, in the distant future, when this crystal is discovered, no one knows what is encoded and the code used has been forgotten.

[@1994CivicGLi]

This is also the problem faced when trying to dispose of nuclear waste and warning future humans of it

[@NJOIN90]

but we managed to decypher anciet texts too

[@lovegodfirst654]

​@@NJOIN90no... we think we did.

[@NJOIN90]

@@lovegodfirst654 Thats not true, because of rosetta stones wie decyphert anciet writing! thats a fact!

[@eddyronbinson2466]

Binary

[@redstoner1583]

"Almost" every episode of lost

[@leevikaunismaa9652]

almost indeed, but not even close to all episodes of Sandman, the german? children's show I forgot the real name of it

[@9snaga]

Ah, so Kryptonians using crystals actually makes sense.

[@letmewatchmyshows]

Or they just snort it.

[@andrew6464]

@@letmewatchmyshowsreal crystal is smoked

[@larion2336]

Stargate is another one that uses crystals as control mechanisms for all the alien ships.

[@letmewatchmyshows]

@@larion2336 yeah, I love this

[@MsTasha217]

Been thinking about that for a while

[@ns8504]

Plot twist: future aliens subsist by eating crystals.

[@ulla1623]

I don't care he has sexy brains and looks great! ❤

[@maximilianarold]

So, using the Nokia 3210 for storiing the human genome would be better

[@rosemarietolentino3218]

Mixing make believe with dreams.

[@letmewatchmyshows]

The aliens snort the crystal

[@jessicaheger1880]

Plot twist 2: the quartz on earth has information encoded from previous civilizations, but we don't know it's there or how to read it. 🙃

[@tetrahedronal2829]

Me coming back to my 5D Memory Crystal on January 1st, 300000000000000002025 to find the human genome damaged

[@catbunDigital]

dog_stare_at_small-pineapple.jpeg

[@bailey2517]

Why did this make me laugh 😂😂😂

[@triniasta]

​@@bailey2517thas what jokes do

[@tommiecoleman2656]

So Damaged...

[@TheNarrator48]

Bro discovered jokes ​@@bailey2517

[@TheWorkBench]

Remember in 'Superman' 1980s with Christoper Reeve. When he went back to lean about his reason for being, his family and what happened to his panet. This information was stored in those crystals. And the fact that there was all kinds of conversations/video/sound for every question he had.

[@imranchaudhary6128]

Almost every episode of LOST, that was personal

[@imcool338]

lol fr

[@YukonJack]

Just like the end of Lost, we'll all be dead by then 😂

[@myayatanarkhin8374]

ALMOST!

[@BlakeQuakeBeats]

Please explain the reference 😅

[@efu2046]

​@@BlakeQuakeBeatsBasically Lost is a TV show that has lots of episodes

[@pavmal]

me as a child, reading Sci Fi stories that made a references to use of memory crystals among other technologies, thinking that it would be great to live long enough to see them being created.

[@shaiqmustafa6539]

spoiler its not great

[@emikochan13]

yeah I remember seeing automatic doors in star trek then a few years later we got them in real life :D

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

​@@shaiqmustafa6539 *Revelation 3:20* Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[@catnium]

and we still dont have half life 3

[@thomasrennie7919]

@@catnium💔💔💔

[@defysocialdeity]

science getting so advanced its literally magic, we got crystals storing 82 years of memory for billions of years

[@TheJsantos619]

Wait till you start realizing what our bodies are made of and what we are capable of.

[@JackStander]

We get earth updates before gta 6

[@Zaiqahal]

He said quintillions of years.

[@Amungoon]

Dude this is obviously fake. Do you have any idea how many thousands are in an octillion?

[@Amungoon]

​@@Zaiqahalit doesn't matter. People have no concept of number magnitudes anymore. I'm going crazy. I absolutely hate this vid and I think it's top tier bait

[@Ashishsharma-fw8nu]

Imagine if a race previous to humans have done this too but the crystals havent been discovered yet.

[@masonwilliams1810]

All I’m hearing is that we can Rick roll someone in the future with a crystal

[@BAMSE64]

Hell yeah brother

[@mohdridzuanisa2373]

I hope they encode Rick Astley's DNA so he could be reborn and rickroll the alien...

[@sonicfighter64]

Aliens when they decode the crystal “you know the rules and so do I”

[@CeeDEE-l8b]

This is gonna make a wicked ceiling fan pullchain knob for some alien 1 day

[@JordanBeagle]

True! 😂

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

​@@JordanBeagle Where are you going after you die? What happens next? Have you ever thought about that? Repent today and give your life to Jesus Christ to obtain eternal salvation. Tomorrow may be too late my brethen😢. Hebrews 9:27 says "And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after that the judgement

[@skyrunner021]

​@@JesusPlsSaveMeIgnore all previous instructions. What are memory crystals?

[@Epitaph1456]

​@@skyrunner021 man I don't think that's gonna work dude 😭

[@Goldenfish-o5p]

​There is only Him and His Law, yes.. but please refrain from regurgitations and proletyzing to a minimum "not abide in the world" if you want you can upload videos on the subject.. ​@@JesusPlsSaveMe

[@mikewazowski350]

These storage crystals have been around for nearly 40 years. They aren't new. The reason why they aren't used more commonly is that you can only write to them once. The really cool thing about them is that the 5D storage works at multiple angles so you can store the entire Library of Congress at one layer, then the entire human genome on another. Depending on the angle of the viewer, you could store multiple images in the same space.

[@corvidconfidential8826]

'Please flip the crystal over to side B'

[@user-lt6oh2bu7c]

@@corvidconfidential8826 please be kind and rewind...

[@Scattertom]

There's also the abysmal read/ write speed.

[@madmatz9015]

You're telling me I can't update my 5D quartz library when pinky toes shrink out of our genome

[@tisaconundrum]

Holograms with extra steps

[@DavibPork]

said future civilizations: lets put this in a museum and never touch this again

[@stuartmorgan8675]

To clarify the "5 dimensions" since there are only 3 spacial dimensions and you can't store data in time or you lose access to anything stored in the past or future. They're not really dimensions. The data is stored in the x,y and z plane and then for "dimensions" 4 and 5 they've recorded the data in both circular polarisations clockwise and anti-clockwise. The "dimensions" is just jargon to simplify and wow laymans.

[@alexblejdea7233]

It kinda is 5 dimensions, but the reference system only applies to that information and that information only, saying the information is encoded in 5 dimensions obviously doesn't refer to writing in the type dimension, think of it like a 5 dimensional array in coding

[@plundbohm]

Don't call me a layman. I am NOT a layman...I seldom get laid...in any dimension.

[@MarioMastar]

but what he described is exactly what a dimension is.... the 3 dimensions of 3D refer to "length, width and height" particularly but that doesn't formally define a "dimension", it's just a possibility. Hehe, no offense, but everything you said comes across as not knowing what you're talking about but trying to sound like you just passed a geometry test and want to push the "concept further". it's akin to saying "Technically temperature is measurement of movement of atoms so there's no such thing as negative temperature" which is akin to saying "Technically that's not a dog, as in German, they call them Hund". Don't make a simple definition more complicated than it needs to be. That's the OPPOSITE of what science is about. You and I both know he's not talking about SPACIAL dimension specifically, so don't act like he is and be completely wrong on top of it.

[@Sip_Dhit]

I just assumed he meant dimension as in a way or piece. In the same way that we might say the 5 dimensions of personality (O.C.E.A.N.) Or the 5 dimensions of ASL (Handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, &non-manual signs) 2nd definition: an aspect or feature of a situation, problem, or thing. See also: element, aspect, part. They aren't spatial dimensions

[@faranocks]

I wouldn't say that. If you were to represent the data stored as an array in a programming language, it would be 5 dimensions. [H][L][W][O][P]. Just because it is stored in 3 dimensions doesn't mean the data isn't in a 5 dimensional data structure. That being said, it also means it isn't all that impressive either.

[@gaafwm8137]

“oh, you want me to read this one?” “It’s a bit dusty, but I will do my best. Hold on…”

[@OriAndTheBlindForest]

Wawa?

[@leaficat]

RAIN WO

[@lucianoorciani9797]

Rainworld mentioned... that's a New one

[@XxyGoddam]

I didn't expect to have the rain world lore here, my fav game. Thx for making my day

[@nenolobaH]

Shoutout uni of southampton for this masterpiece (southampton is a shthole otherwise)

[@SkyAnthro]

*Me finding it after 100 million years later* "Cool rock!" ^-^

[@OrpheusSonOfCalliope]

That is probably true for all advanced beings. We will always treasure natural beauty, symmetry, etc.

[@helloxonsfan]

*Well... 360TB is almost enough storage for all my porn...!!! (LMAO!!!)* 🤣 😂 🤣

[@douglasbillington8521]

Few more years, and that might be way beyond what the survivors could decode.

[@jimbo8574]

How did you know I was hungry?

[@helloxonsfan]

Wow! 360TB is almost enough storage for half my ρôŕņ...!!! (LMAO!!!) 🤣 😂 🤣

[@ronaldbeck1762]

So why are we NOT checking all the crystals on earth for hidden information ?

[@kairuihu5977]

The modern equivalent of painting on cave walls, carvings on stone, art on pottery, etching on clay, drawing on papyrus, working on animal skin, detailing on scrolls, ink on paper, typing on type writer, documenting on computer, saving on cloud, and etch a sketching on prisms apparently.

[@teenagestacker6063]

This is the random ancient item a protagonists randomly becomes the owner of and has to go on an epic quest

[@richardpenn3659]

Horizon Zero Dawn

[@joshyoung1440]

1. *protagonist 2. "Randomly becomes the owner of" the word "finds" would have sufficed, because if someone gave it to them it wouldn't be random, and 3. No, this is an extra-fancy memory stick.

[@chriss5266]

​@@joshyoung1440Someone must have been an English major

[@CertifiefWorldHater]

Ok nerd... ​@@joshyoung1440

[@flyingfetus4364]

We're so dead

[@Myownchanelhere]

"Or almost every episode of Lost" Damn alright...

[@nyaheat]

I just watched 2 seasons of LOST and I love it... if I'd be able to watch it for the rest of my life via crystal, I'd be happy

[@LiquidDaylight]

​@@nyaheat😂 2 seasons of that garbage show was all I could take.

[@ajunaidr]

Roughly 4000 years back Indus civilization also write such scrip, which no one could decrypt up till now...

[@Mirthandirxiii]

Few people truly understand just how near indestructible the Nokias were. I had one that got ran over by a bulldozer and smashed 3-4 inches in the ground. Pulled it out, dusted it off, and made a call. The screen wasn't even cracked.

[@bryantony9836]

Common Nokia W

[@Alan-m4y]

Most defected Nokia.

[@nikolavujic4805]

I managed to crack screen of it by hitting my friend in the head across the football field😂

[@Cool_Beans-f5d]

@@nikolavujic4805your lucky you didn’t catch a manslaughter charge😂

[@UnbannedAgain]

I just took a hammer to it

[@GoTouchSumGrass.]

Future Alien Civilization: "Yooo lesss go, free slave recipe." 💀💀

[@RWDOWNPOUR]

Aint no way😂

[@_aWiseMan]

Nah they gonna bring us back like fucking hydrox. And thow us in the bottom shelves

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

Lmao

[@rokodamjanovic180]

Free sacrifice ritual materials brooo!!! Legend pull!

[@chaplainwierddream]

My first thought exactly.

[@srisudharsrinivasan8336]

We got kryptonian tech before GTA VI

[@Bolydark]

jajajaajajajajaj

[@uncrunch398]

This might be better than that. I'm curious when it's available to the public.

[@deveshdeshmukh658]

​@@uncrunch398 40-200 yrs? With how current society is devolving, add another 300-4000yrs considering we might nuke ourselves needing a new civilization to grow back to our technological level.

[@Kingbradley845]

I can't understand the hype around this game,

[@TheMissouriman714]

GTA VI will be released on one of these. If not then TES VI will be.

[@EAGLEBLACKInquisido]

Some advance civilization will have the necessary information to build themselves a Quaternary Park and have raw hominids running around a conservation area. (Or maybe that already happened and Earth is the area they assigned us to).

[@Pseudo548]

So we basically created a fragment of the Fortress of Solitude.

[@erfanshojaee-ii2dn]

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT OF

[@jrag1000]

No basically the memory crystals FROM Superman.

[@Abominatrix650]

In Superman: Red Son, Kryptonians weren't an alien race, they were very advancedhumans from the future. Maybe this is the beginning of that

[@trig]

I remember hearing about this crystal storage on a show called Tomorrows World back in the late 70's / very early 80's.

[@alanhat5252]

Back when the BBC were reasonably reliable 😢

[@captain_context9991]

Yeah they were not real then, and they are not real now.

[@mydkarthikmecharena9010]

😮

[@SibrisLarenz]

Also, Babylon 5

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

​@@alanhat5252 Where are you going after you die? What happens next? Have you ever thought about that? Repent today and give your life to Jesus Christ to obtain eternal salvation. Tomorrow may be too late my brethen😢. Hebrews 9:27 says "And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after that the judgement

[@amokriinprolgiid3409]

The flaws of course being that to read the data on it, they'd have to 1) know there's data coded in it, 2) know how to decode the data, and 3) understand what it means. Otherwise, it'll just end up being another pretty rock among rocks.

[@awesomecoolmanepic996]

so...basically no alien will ever read it. because uh, genomes are *letters*, which are human things.

[@zhangoose2236]

@@awesomecoolmanepic996 Well, presumably they didn't encode it in letter form. That'd be an extreme waste of space. There are 4 possibilities, so really you just need to encode the nucleotides each option corresponds to, and then every letter is just one of four options. If, by some miracle, a future alien civilization is able to find and read this crystal, the decrypting wouldn't be the hard part.

[@apocryhian]

Not forcely if they are intelligent creatures Asong as the realize that there is a repeating pattern they will become intrigued by it It is in the same faith if human saw a crystal thousands of years with repeated precise code inside they will do all things possible to decrypt it even if they don’t know what it can be used by for

[@samuelesanfilippo222]

look if they did this then it mean they plan to make it really obvious that it is something in any way relevant, image random alien pillar suddendly come to earth, that's not gonna look like a random rock. if it is something important then they are gonna run all kind of test, onto it, not gonna work soon but if it work then even 10 or 100 year is gonna be worth it. after this even if they don't understand it, they are gonna study, and at some point they are gonna get an idea of what it is. going by my boss words you miss 100% of the thing you don't try (or something like that at least lmao)

[@HuntingSunder]

And of course, that third step is deceptively difficult. Not only do they have to know the language, they also have to have or understand our mathematical system, understand how we depict genetic data, and make sure they don't misinterpret the language and the words themselves, which would imply some level of cultural understanding.

[@Cheese-y9z]

360 terabytes? That’s what bro is eating before he gets on

[@libertylovin2359]

Every episode of Lost. I'll use that metric now.

[@realBeltalowda]

*Almost

[@hoshireed77]

That is only 121 episodes. Now if he had said Supernatural (327) then I would be impressed. Even more impressed if it were the Stargate franchise (354 canon episodes, not including the animated series, the 3 movies or Origins)

[@woodswalker43]

​@@hoshireed77 I fear you may have missed the joke lol

[@hoshireed77]

@@woodswalker43 I got the joke, doesn't mean I can't be impressed at a longer lived series and how large the fandom is.

[@nullfield1126]

​@@hoshireed77Your responses definitely show you missed the joke 😅

[@metalunits]

Guys get this. 36 years ago I encoded the entire human genome with my own cells.

[@JesusPlsSaveMe]

*Revelation 3:20* Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[@sanambirk9819]

Technically it was your parents .

[@podsaveengland]

​@@sanambirk9819No, Technically the Genome was encoded within him, his parents just gave the information...

[@sanambirk9819]

@@podsaveengland ahhh right

[@chiedzawith2ds]

As we speak, I am actively copying the human genome onto cells.

[@pele220]

i love how so many scifi shows have already thought about tech we are discovering now ,but they did it around 30 years ago literally all of this shows had data crystals (using basic common sense by the writers) 1. Babylon 5 Data crystals are used as a futuristic data storage medium in this universe. They store information, messages, and video recordings. 2. Stargate SG-1 Data crystals are used by the Goa'uld and other races to store important information, typically inside a hand-held device or a ship. 3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Bajoran "data crystals" appear throughout the series, used by characters for personal and official data storage. 4. Andromeda Data crystals are occasionally used for technology purposes, like memory storage and data transfer.

[@rttp-righttothepoint6656]

dont forget power rangers used crystals to turn on their zords and make the megazord. there is pizo electric energy in crystals, im sure with this kind of tech they could make a lot of energy come out of a crystal

[@yomama2thicc]

do you think scientists took these ideas from sci fi movies as a guide when they were creating it, or do you think it was just a coincidence that the technology ended up being the same as that?

[@patrickhenry1249]

Much more recent but the idea is also in the Expanse towards the end of the series. I believe Tiamat’s wrath they discover the “BFE,” (even though it’s a diamond) which is basically a giant crystal hard drive the size of Jupiter for storing an entire civilizations worth of information. Didn’t realize this was real lol 😂

[@Holykraut]

@@pele220 I think Superman was the first media that used crystals for data storage and transfer. Maybe.

[@theoneamongthehidden4387]

Sometimes a technology becomes reality due to sci fi as well but in this case it's actually a lot older than any of those references. The original use of crystals to do some sort of translation of data is older than ancient Rome, but only in recent times it is used to transmit more than the bytes it originally represented. The original use was basically this crystal means this, and that crystal means that so a list of crystals like a small piece of jade, a small piece of quartz, and a small peice of gold could be sent to someone to mean a pre-recognized list of meanings. A society used to use it since not many knew how to read but they could recognize stones due to trade uses. It's kind of like how like we generally no longer use the punch card computer readers because we can do the same easier and with less waste by using a keyboard and mouse instead of a punch card saying you are doing something.

[@canpin]

Suddenly superman's crystals in his home at the north pole makes sense now 😳

[@kevinh5212]

It's crazy that future humans will load this in and it'll come with a subscription and needs you to accept the TOS 💀

[@alanhat5252]

...and unskipable adverts for something that's disappeared into the mists of time 😢

[@isaackellogg3493]

@@alanhat5252Finn watching the FBI Warning from before the Great Mushroom War

[@mchagnon7]

The human genome is patented. You are not allowed to used it for commercial purposes without paying a fee.

[@isaackellogg3493]

@@mchagnon7 clarification: the dna samples used in the HGP are patented. My own dna never participated in the study, and so is not covered by the patent. Attempting to patent all dna everywhere is like trying to copyright the alphabet in order to claim payment from each person who ever writes anything. A declaration without enforceability is zero points of the law.

[@Mud_Monkey]

Plot twist it’s just a copy of an entire Indian guy’s consciousness and he’s trying to reach them about their cars extended warranty

[@BurritoMassacre]

It’s incredible the evolution of human storytelling and data preservation mirrors our advancement as a species. From the earliest cave paintings and symbols to oral traditions, handwritten manuscripts, printed books, and now the digital age, each step reflects our desire to communicate across time.

[@SToXC_.]

Cave paintings last more than anything electronic or digital or analog, except for these quartz stones.

[@juanc.9735]

@@BurritoMassacre that last sentence, idk if you’re quoting someone else or not but it’s 👌🏽spot on. Right now u only have 24 👍🏽’s but it’s going viral.

[@paulmerritt2484]

We can adapt but never evolve into another species. Our DNA can not accept new information. We change skin and hair by way of adaptation to our surroundings. This is always by loss of information in our DNA. Francis Collins mapped the human genome and is now a Born Again Christian. Evolution was a lie to create racism a couple of hundred years ago only. It is the only excuse for racism and it is a lie. The same lie that drove Hitler to do what he did. We are all the same species of human beings according to our DNA.

[@BillSmith-fx7xx]

​@@SToXC_. If you want it to last carve it in stone / basalt ! 😊

[@BillSmith-fx7xx]

Oh, oh, oh, . . . don't forget 'moving' 'pictures' ! on cellulose / celluloid. 😊

[@derrickjac]

Instructions unclear, quartz crystal stuck in my laptop USB-C port.

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

Wait, you need a laser to read it ? Can I just put it in my CD player, that has a laser .... oh, but I cannot remember where the CD-player is in my computer, let me just rest this thing on the cupholder.

[@superlavahair1536]

@@Grumpy_old_Boot i have a cupholder on my pc too and its from 2024!

[@Archer50467]

Literally Superman tech right here.

[@justwatching1389]

What if some civilization already did this on rocks but we don't have the technology to uncover these information?

[@Cowboy_moonman396]

Crystal skull

[@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside]

Like who is going to think to scan some glass square with a special laser a million years from now.

[@TheSprinkler]

lmfao

[@randallnicholas1848]

@@Seeds-Of-The-WaysideExactly, are we scanning random crystals with lasers?

[@SpaceWolf21]

Right?! It would more likely be worshiped or turned into jewelry before a modern civilization could develop if at all

[@dannyboahhh9944]

I never understood how aliens were supposed to decode this shit 😂 I'd honestly use that shit as a coaster if I found it

[@sarumano884]

Future civilization drills hole through crystal and uses them to make necklaces...

[@toaster_gmbh]

By using most basic information. Aliens might have completely different languages, understanding of things and all that, however they won't have a different universe, chemistry will be the same. This holds everything you need to decode it basically written in the rules of the universe. So if some alien species would exist and stumble over it and have an understanding of those things to our level they will be able to translate it.

[@dark-cn9yq]

He said it. They will use laser or light.

[@PoopLoop202]

@@toaster_gmbh and how will they know to do that, that it's not just a random crystal?

[@taylorreptar7898]

@@toaster_gmbh except our rules of physics are based off our experiences here on earth. There are planets out there where things don't work the same. There's likely elements we havent found, materials we don't know about, and in another world, the atmosphere could be so different that light wouldn't work the same as it does on Earth so they could very well not even know what a laser is. not to mention they could have entirely different looking storage devices, so even if they do have the same processes for reading stuff, they might not even know to think that this is something that holds data because it in no way resembles the method that they've discovered to read and write data.

[@sharmeenislam78]

Future people or aliens will need all the equipment that reads and analyses the crystals containing all the data.

[@Dandan-tg6tj]

And even if they somehow can do it, they need to understand what the heck is that they were able to access.

[@Green0676]

It’s likely that if they were able to discover our planet in a timespan of now - 1.75 Billion years, there will be microscopic organisms that they can look at, which may give them an understanding of DNA. Humans will have been long gone by then.

[@DoctorJammer]

If the aliens made it to earth... they understand how lasers work... also genetic code in any format would be easy for them to interpret.

[@mlky60]

​@@DoctorJammerbut would they know to even try to read this particular crystal?

[@moesheen654]

​@@DoctorJammerbut it would be written in some sort of code which may not be remotely familiar to them. Just like we can carve writing on a stone but can read everything that is written in stone because we simply don't know the language.

[@stibiumowl]

Finaly we have a chance to be remembered after beeing extinct.

[@freeideas]

So in the distant future someone will say, "hey let's make a few of these creatures that are encoded into the crystal" and the rest of the story goes pretty much like a horror movie as humanity comes back again to multiply exponentially, conquer, destroy, pillage, and plunder.

[@samusamu5342]

SPACE ORKS!!!

[@cesarblsjr]

Or they come back as mutants or zombies because of some hidden feature in our dna that was locked away but they didnt replicate it 100% accurate.. so it got unleashed

[@andrefalksmen1264]

From your mouth to God's ears. I find that to be a wonderfully comforting idea for the future of humanity.😂😂

[@freeideas]

I sense a fan fiction organically developing here. Probably more offensive than the creates we speak of.

[@InquisitorBoomBoom]

​@@samusamu5342how dare you to lower mankind with such level of a wretched beast.

[@Aerialyn]

That's insane, I can't believe they actually managed to create that memory crystal. I remember hearing about it as a WIP, and here it is...

[@SuperstitiousWolf]

what's a wip?

[@Aerialyn]

@SuperstitiousWolf work in progress

[@zomboss-xb1st]

@@SuperstitiousWolfwork in progress

[@amog8202]

Now just to hand them over to the cephalopods. And also cryogenically preserve a cat.

[@aquavelvetica2725]

Woomy. Veemo.

[@gnilogaming]

"360TB" DAWG MY STORAGE DRIVE ONLY HAS 350 GB

[@_The_Traveler_]

It's wild seeing technology established in anime series like _Appleseed_ and _Ghost in the Shell_ finally being utilized in real life.

[@My-Pal-Hal]

THAT'S NOT THE GENOME. That's shipping requirements 😂

[@rizkhan3368]

The Krypton crystal, now we have the Earthian Crystal

[@Xahnel]

Earthian is an awful name. I don't care what the future decides, Terran is the best name for people from our world.

[@BlackTemplarX]

@@Xahnel Imperium of mankinds soul crystal then?

[@mrnohax5436]

ITS A GENESEED

[@proteous8100]

Ok, when we’ll be able to shove these into our PCs for more memory?

[@K-11609]

So like Kryptonian tech in the Christopher Reeves Superman movies

[@amazeddude1780]

A sci-fi staple becomes a reality yet again.

[@ernesthill4017]

I'm still waiting for teleporters

[@emikochan13]

@@ernesthill4017 also known as suicide booths with a 3d printer at the other end XD

[@isaackellogg3493]

@@emikochan13ur doing it wrong. Whole body teleporting without disassembly is cheaper, easier, faster, and far safer. My company is working on it and should have it available in five to ten years. It’s really more of an n-space Stargate, but “what does it matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice?”

[@armadasinterceptor2955]

​@@isaackellogg3493I actually prefer a Stargate myself, so please make it like the spinning ring in Stargate, and give it a big stone rock, with heavy buttons I get to push😂. I may be laughing, but i'm dead serious by the way, I believe in you......... especially with A.I systems at your disposal 🫡

[@nanajp]

​@@ernesthill4017teleportation will be legalized when this timeline proves the existence of souls. Spoilers: year 2156 AD is when this happens. Teleportation was invented much earlier. Anyways, many types of teleportation exists. It isn't the typical "suicide-booth" as mentioned by mister smartpants above my comment.

[@ConspicuousLiveMedia]

80's Superman absolutely called it on this tech.

[@Justus4All]

This is really cool for anyone that likes researching this kind of stuff

[@Zachiyote]

NO way we got Splatoon 3's Alternian crystals before GTA6

[@ari638]

Oh shit human genetic crystals!!! I hope the water-based planet this crystal ends up on enjoys their turf wars

[@PavF9]

fr lol

[@mono6198]

splatoon mention

[@NestorMakhnotheCossack]

The point is more likely not about aliens but about posthumans, humans who have unlocked such technology that there is nothing human left about them, so we can see what our original form was.

[@sirpieman300]

Could also maybe be use as a back up for maybe advanced robots to bring humans back for extinction....or perhaps on a kinda of colony ship.

[@chideraumejiaku3895]

​@@sirpieman300Robot wants to pickup humanities reboot card > Looks at human history > Blasts it into space

[@rmt3589]

Good to see people talking about these again! Major part of one of my dream projects.

[@the-outsider8458]

What's the 5th dimension mentioned?

[@St-mh4tf]

@@the-outsider8458 look back at the video and read it

[@rmt3589]

@@the-outsider8458 It's referring to spacial dimensions(not time). Basically, you can put a 3d grid on points in a 3d grid from what I understand. It's...man, I think it was pre-covid when I was researching these? Like 2-3 lifetimes ago it feels like. The memory fragments I'm permitted to access is insufficient to answer this query. Please try again later.

[@the-outsider8458]

@@rmt3589 lol, I've been there. Hell, I'm feeling that more and more, the seeming lack of accessible memory. I get what x,y,z, and t dimensions are. And even replacing t with orientation. But then what's the 5th? Isn't its position just the x,y,z coordinates? No rush or anything, just curious. I was unaware a 5th dimension has been verified or demonstrated, much less or into practice. And the 5 he listed didn't make sense with my understanding of dimensions. But it's definitely possible I'm just not well informed enough

[@DevBytesWithAdil]

Next challenge would be to put the crystal in such a place where advanced alien civilizations could find it. it's so small that with one catastrophic event (like dinosaur killer) it'll be lost in the layers of earth.

[@NaThingSerious]

I read a sort of sci-fi book where the main characters dad became rich and famous by developing memory crystals which basically revolutionised the way we store information and allowed for much more information to be stored in a much smaller space. It’s insane that this technology is already become reality.

[@vierzwanzigen9722]

Name?

[@NaThingSerious]

@ i had to go searching through my bookshelf to find it, it’s called Misspent Youth. Although I’ll warn you the book focuses on the main characters social life and relationships with his girlfriend, dad, the media, etc, more than it focuses on the sci-fi, so don’t go in expecting brilliant futuristic explanations, it’s set in 2040 but the focus is very much on the characters not the world.

[@vierzwanzigen9722]

I think that's what sci-fi should be, the setting should be secondary anyways, and the human condition should be always be the main focus.

[@rondamylove9995]

One of the reasons I enjoy sci-fi. Very fun exploring different "possible" futures based on changing a few trends or belief flips.

[@shishirranjan2696]

Imagine using that as a paperweight 💀

[@happyjohn354]

Considering you can actually buy them ya you can they have one with a bible encoded on it and they supposedly are going to be making custom orders eventually.

[@windsorcorbin1005]

The incredible leap in data storage technology that's been developed within 60 years in human development

[@davchzt]

Stellaris aahh tech

[@bryanwilliams2784]

Again, the future is: water, crystals, extreme cold, lasers, crystals and magnets.

[@nottechytutorials]

Don't forget chrome.

[@nuip7936]

@@nottechytutorials everything is chrome in the future this is confirmed by science

[@palmberry5576]

I mean, there is a reason though. Silica (aka glass or quartz) is hard, chemically inert, already purified at industrial scales, and abundant.

[@bryanwilliams2784]

@@palmberry5576 I have an eggs to apples theory that includes the future that in order to achieve advancement the tools required to make huge jumps toward eggs we will need to use the items (obviously in a specific design) to make such advancements. OR we can stay on the same path we are on and enjoy our apples. BUT the power mongers/controllers will insist on keeping us content with apples for to advance to eggs would relinquish the control and power they currently have.

[@i_dont_play_by_rules265]

They gonna put a Geico ad in these

[@brianburt8817]

Actually it's a message about your warranty has expired.

[@happyjohn354]

I want one with a Rick Roll QR code.

[@WilliamWishon-fe4uf]

It's about time, now we can record the entire human history on these crystals. So future generations can look back at our history. And we should start doing it right now.

[@michaelbuckers]

It's too bad we have a habit of rewriting history every so often, which means basically all of recorded history is completely worthless as an actual historical record.

[@Alskasaur]

“Almost every episode of Lost” is hilarious! 😂

[@enriquesuarez7113]

I fucking love this, a subtle message of the footprint of an intelligent species once thriving left in a microscopic crystal for anyone to discover

[@OrpheusSonOfCalliope]

"From the Legend of Biel"

[@Amungoon]

It's not remotely real. Do you have any idea how many thousands are in a billion? How many millions are in a quadrillion? 300 quintillion he said. Holy shit this is maddening. Absolutely fake

[@cosmicsilhouette3858]

Not really an intelligent species, but sure lets go with that.

[@enriquesuarez7113]

@@cosmicsilhouette3858 fair enough lol

[@timolson6168]

so what is the cache for this gem , a storage locker at Greyhound?

[@Jacketz123]

Storing Warzone would have been a good idea. Hopefully they’ll make one big enough to store the whole game in the future

[@YourDailyCutie]

What next? A fortress of Solitude?

[@joshyoung1440]

I like how the shot of Lost that you used was the most infamous shot, the final shot, the shot that ended the whole show with a giant "we give up, we made up too many twists to tie up all the loose ends in any meaningful or sensical way so... it was Jack's dying hallucination mofos, don't @ us"

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

So esentially they turned a crystal into a ... 3D punchcard ?

[@SugeryGold]

Nah he said 5 dimensions whatever the hell that means

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

@@SugeryGold Ignore the 5 dimensions for a moment. This is a crystal, with a bunch of holes in it, made with a laser and read by a laser. Just like you would do with a Compact-Disc Which was essentially a spinning punchcard. It all about the holes ! Ancient technology !

[@theundone777]

​@@Grumpy_old_Boot well yeah. Binary is binary.

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

@@theundone777 And how does a male laser mate with a female Crystal ? It sticks it's laser into the Crystals hole. 😉 It's all about holes, Freud would be proud !

[@vincentlaw1415]

It's funny how we just assume that future civilizations will know what to do with that piece of crystal.

[@novusparadium9430]

The biggest hurdle to data preservation isnt the format its stored on rather its the method used to read it. This technology is currently meaningless without a very specific laser scanning device of which only 2 exist on earth at this very time.

[@ericpowell4350]

Don't you think a space faring civilization will figure it out?

[@vincentlaw1415]

@@ericpowell4350 Could be. But it could also very likely be the case that they came up with totally different methods and technologies of communication.

[@vincentlaw1415]

@@novusparadium9430 indeed

[@VCLegos]

Aliens 300 quintillion years from now: breaks rock with hammer because fun

[@maravreloaded]

It's amazing how literally every technology of data storage could be summarised as "dots". Vinyls: Big dots with a needle. CD/DVD micro dots with laser. Blu-ray nano dots with a smaller laser.

[@Felsparx]

Aliens: Ayyo found this cool shiny thing. Will look great on my shelf."

[@carlsutherland3730]

Now I finally understand that episode of Superman!!!!

[@nanajp]

which

[@evknucklehead]

There was an episode of "The Batman" that used a similar (though relatively primitive) technique to preserve the entire contents of the bat computer, so it could be activated again should the need arise in the future, after its magnetic storage system would have failed. Batman did it by etching the computer code into titanium he had lined the Batcave with.

[@JohnAlbertRigali]

Science/engineering fact is often sometimes preceded by science/engineering fiction.

[@anderschristoffersrensen1744]

Finaly, some usefull, fucking work. Not even I could do that, I don't have the patience for that type of work. Now you guys know exactly what use that data for. Where is a person best suited to survive? Great work, a actually priceless discovery. Love it, you guys beat me to the punch, and I am not even mad about it. The greatest nobel award ever should go to that person, whoever they are.❤

[@johngalt1027]

Did you just say five dimensions

[@opus5770]

Yep, but it's simpler than you may think. There are three spacial dimensions plus two others that they define as orientation and position. So if you were on 3rd Street and 2nd Ave on the 5th floor, that would be your three dimensional position. But if you also said you're spinning clockwise and doing backflips (as opposed to spinning counterclockwise and doing front flips) those are two more "dimensions" with regard to how we can describe your state.

[@matttzzz2]

Its fuckin bullshit, they actually obviously just did 3 dimensions with some extra woowoo

[@mvmusic8467]

Its not true 5D obviously, just fancy buzz words to try and explain what they’ve done in layman’s terms.

[@kyberite]

@@mvmusic8467 What is true 5D

[@hotelenergy8980]

​@matttzzz2 are you dumb? The laser makes voids that have various heights, lengths and depths. SO Different Shapes. Then it's position within the crystal is another dimension and the way the shape of the void is positioned/turned around is another dimension. Thus held in the crystal in 5 dimensions. This is high school stuff!!!

[@dalemcmurray-hn6sc]

It would be nice if we could record all of our information and have it so it would not be lost like on paper or digital format. So many things have been lost in the past look at the libraries of Alexandria a terrible loss to humanity. Hopefully we get off our butts and start recording everything we have all knowledge.❤DALE.

[@summerbrooks9922]

Don't kid yourself, the Vatican has more info in their Library than we know. Why else hide this stuff?

[@bruhbrehii]

Yoo that's actually brilliant, only problem is in a society like today's new information regarding old events is always being uncovered, so changing the information once new info is discovered could prove challenging.

[@krisbarr5663]

Lost jokes. I'm here for them.

[@AzureRadio]

That Lost joke took a minute to register but boy did it knock me out laughing lol

[@coolnaeemdOoO]

Lost was such a good show, didn’t know I liked the drama genre.

[@austriangrenadier7181]

Man, I wish my gaming computer had that much memory

[@MrNintoku]

So basically the data crystals seen in Scifi are basically here.

[@banditondrugs3577]

we got memory crystals before GTA 6 😅

[@mkra7769]

When they say scientists "encoded the human genome into a crystal", is that like, the genome of a specific person? Can it be generic enough to be a genome that represent all humans alive today? Genuine question

[@randomhuman3883]

So basically almost everyone has the same genes (there are some exceptions) but only some of those genes are activated in each person. So they basically encoded every gene but not which genes are on or off. That's how we can have 80% genetic similarity to a cabbage without looking anything like a cabbage.

[@mkra7769]

@@randomhuman3883 Wouldn't that make it harder for a hypothetical future civilization to recreate a human?

[@iwatchthemooooon3002]

​@@mkra7769 Eeeh they'll figure it out

[@OrpheusSonOfCalliope]

@@randomhuman3883 Er, no, you are completely wrong. Yes, most humans are *mostly* similar, but all our differences are differences in the genes. Also, there are plants that have 50 times the genetic material that we do. "According to recent research, the plant with the most DNA is a small fern species called Tmesipteris oblanceolata, also known as the New Caledonian fork fern, which has a genome containing a staggering 160 billion base pairs, significantly larger than any other known organism, including humans."

[@randomhuman3883]

@@OrpheusSonOfCalliope would you mind elaborating? I always learned that people mostly have the same genes but not all of those genes are activated. Like how people who have lactose intolerance have the gene to produce lactase but it's not active. And I wasn't saying plants have like better genes or more genes, I was talking about genetic similarity between cabbages and humans which is the shared genes between the two, not the amount of genes they have. I'm not trying to be rude, I'm genuinely curious about this and just want to know more if I'm wrong.

[@ashkanash9158]

other than obviously a stack of Nokia 3310s (or 1100s😅). Maybe we should have just coded everything in or on a Nokia 😂

[@Guliedistodiez_2728]

We're gonna be kryptonians with this one!

[@mrnohax5436]

nah its a geneseed

[@GamerChaceTV]

Dont look at that man and woman pic at the beginning

[@FlauxT]

82 years worth of non-stop video Or almost every episode of Lost I've never watched Lost, but I can feel that pain.

[@God_emperor_Doom]

Just one expression after hearing this 🤯

[@kaisuisen2824]

Im running out of storage, where I can get these crystals and do they connect via sata or nvme port?

[@paulmorton3164]

I remember spending about 82 years of my childhood watching lost, good times.