A method for large-scale and long-term systematic preservation of the achievements of civilization

Colten 2022-03-24 09:02:17

I watched four "Mad-Max" on and off. This four-part series is said to have created a new theme of the wasteland dystopian sci-fi film. I like this kind of sci-fi film very much. The one that impressed me the most is "The Postman". After the social order collapsed and the population plummeted, he usurped the leadership of an armed force and castrated the former boss into his loyal servant

. In fact, it also tells the story of a society in which various armed forces killed each other after the collapse of the society. Such chaotic battles wiped out more than 90% of the population of the whole society... Du Fu's "Army Chariots": You don't hear the Han family in the two hundred states of Shandong, Thousands of villages are born with Jingqi. Even if there are strong women hoeing and ploughing, Hesheng Longmu has nothing... I believe that it is bad to have a boy, but it is better to have a girl. If you have a daughter, you have to marry a neighbor, and if you have a son, you will be buried with a hundred herbs. You can't see the head of Qinghai, and no one has collected the bones since ancient times. The new ghosts are angry and the old ghosts cry, and the sky is cloudy and rainy.

After the collapse of the social order, how to rebuild civilization? How to prevent the increasingly segmented high-tech from being lost? How to prevent society from falling into a long barbaric primitive state? How to choose the best technology recovery development path? This is a topic I've been particularly interested in for a long time, and it's one that is often mentioned in the subject of alien transformation and colonization.

Existing information preservation technologies are becoming more and more complex, fragile, and rely on specific software and hardware. For example, DVD discs and U disks require specific equipment to read, and most of them will fail in decades to hundreds of years, and the storage period is very short. ; The so-called cloud computing, the information stored in the cloud depends on the server software and hardware systems and file formats of a specific company, which is more fragile and cannot be retrieved once the power grid system is destroyed. If civilization collapses and cities are destroyed, the vast amount of knowledge stored in these local or cloud devices will not be available.

The more primitive information technology, the longer the shelf life. The murals and stone carvings of primitive tribes can be preserved for millions of years; ancient inscriptions can still be identified after thousands of years; ancient bamboo slips, papyrus or silk books can also be preserved in ancient tombs for thousands of years; the average lifespan of CD-R discs is only more than 300 years ;The life of the tape may be decades...

I think there should be a government or super rich who realize this vulnerability of human civilization, and then invest a certain amount of money to study related theories and technologies, and design some kind of large-scale long-term system to preserve the achievements of civilization Methods.

In this way, the database for storing the entire civilization should be divided into several levels, each level needs to use a storage method with different technical complexity, and the corresponding usage guidance knowledge (equivalent to a key) needs to be established, and redundancy needs to be considered.

We can't think that the opener of this giant library of civilization in the future uses the same language and text as us. Therefore, we need to have a multilingual graphic and textual inscription or wall inscription system. Similar to the comparison used to decipher cuneiform script, it can make Later scholars have been able to decipher an unknown script using graphics as well as the words and grammar of a known language script. We need to use laser engraving technology to engrave these reference texts and dictionaries in various languages ​​on inert metal sheets, cave walls, and stone slabs, and reproduce hundreds of sets, which are systematically sealed and stored in geologically inactive areas around the world. . It can even be used as a kind of art for private collection and consumption, so that more versions can be copied and it is even less likely to be lost.

It is necessary to systematically sort out science and technology, and to clarify the interdependence between various technologies, so that we can find out the sequence of recovery of various technologies needed to rebuild society. For example, iron smelting technology depends on copper smelting, iron smelting technology A higher furnace temperature is required, a container that can accommodate high-temperature molten iron is required, and a high-temperature blower and charcoal technology are also required. The most advanced technology should be issued by laser engraving in the form of inscriptions, gold sheets and slates for private collection. Be sure to let the descendants of future generations become primitive tribes. The descendants can create various tools by discovering and interpreting the data on the inscriptions, and then they can be guided step by step to discover a larger knowledge base stored on other media with higher information storage density. For example, by interpreting the information on the cave paintings, you can know the storage location of some slate books. In addition to creating some primary tools, you can also know the usage and location indexes of similar paper libraries by interpreting the information on the slate. The knowledge of the quality library can be used to manufacture industrial-scale mechanical tools such as bicycles, cars, airplanes, and computers on a large scale. When a computer is manufactured, it can begin to interpret the digital knowledge library stored on the golden medium DVD disc, and then can manufacture spaceships, nuclear power facilities, and DNA genetic engineering equipment. When the genetic engineering equipment is manufactured, it can guide future generations to go to certain areas of the deep sea to extract a certain kind of silt. The redundant DNA of some bacterial chromosomes that multiply in the silt stores a larger amount of knowledge...

...This project can be a separate website, and then all people in the world who recognize the value of this project can be called together to work together...
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