Questions tagged [information]
For questions about the storage and transportation of information through different media.
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Information storage that would work for a space age culture over centuries [duplicate]
Blogger Ray Hardgrit, in his review of the Babylon 5 episode the Parliament of Dreams, describes the data crystals depicted on the show as a "cunningly timeless storage medium" that "...
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What information should be displayed on realistic & intuitive tactical sensor screens for space warfare?
I've thought about space warfare and seen how sensor information has been displayed in various Science Fiction franchises and been left disappointed.
For our future space forces we need screens which (...
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How much can you compress information?
My main character has access to the entire knowledge of humanity (note: This is year 4000s so they have much more than "our humanity"). He created another consciousness for himself; this new ...
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Preservation of knowledge in the event of apocalypse [duplicate]
I am trying to think of a good way for an effectively all-powerful organization to preserve humanity's knowledge for when the inevitable apocalypse happens so that, when the time comes for survivors ...
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How much information can humans transfer in five seconds? [closed]
Two persons can see and talk to each other a handful of seconds. How much information can they convey?
The gods host "hunger games". A huge TV-show where the universe watches a few thousands ...
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How do the Void Aliens record knowledge without perceiving shapes?
The void aliens, as the name implies, live in the void of space. This environment is rather lacking in important shapes, and so the aliens cannot distinguish objects by shape. While many inventions ...
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How do we destroy data permanently in a world where time travel is easily done?
When you delete data, you make it impossible to retrieve for all times in the future, assuming you have done it right.
However, the data still existed in the past. In a world set in the 22nd century, ...
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Can a Birch planet send information out?
Theoretically if a Birch planet is built around the event horizon of an ultra massive blackhole, if there was a planet or structure outside of range to experience time dilation, self maintained ...
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"Busted" from the past
Imagine someone claimed she was from Mesopotamia, one of the earliest civilization and had time travelled 5000 years into the future which is now our current modern day, she was completely naked so ...
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I'm making a tattooed repository of paramedical knowledge for a religious ceremony. How small can words be if they're tattoos made of cremation ashes?
I have a character. One of their parents died. Said parent was cremated, and then - by their own choice; this is a quasi-religious thing - their cremains were mixed into tattoo ink, and the character ...
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Where does a virtual being's data move in the physical world whether in a supercomputer or in the internet?
The virtual world is nothing new in science fiction and has had quite a few uses considering it's a fairly recent concept. Since the virtual realm isn't constrained by understanding of physics, it ...
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Can we represent all objects in the universe in a small cube? [closed]
Imagine this. An alien culture needs the information of all objects that are present in the universe. Could a cube with an internal structure be constructed so that all objects of the universe can be ...
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Preserving information for future humans
I'm conceptualizing a sci-fi short story. In it, the main character will find an obelisk type object which has been half-buried for who knows how long. Well, the answer is about 20,000 years. The ...
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How could publicly accessible information proving that a public figure is corrupt go undetected for at least a year?
How could publicly accessible information proving that a public figure is corrupt go undetected for at least a year?
Assume that the public figure is a moderately noteworthy politician (equivalent to ...
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Create a machine to detect a signal sent from the future [closed]
Suppose the inhabitants of my world wish to build a time machine capable of receiving information sent from the future.
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