The Arch Mission Foundation is a nonprofit organization that collects Human Knowledge with the purpose of making a massive digital backup of all human knowledge. They are in this regard seeking to make a modern-day Library of Alexandria. But not exactly. The Library of Alexandria, one of the largest databases of human knowledge in the ancient world, suffered from two fatal flaws. Firstly, the medium of data storage used in the ancient world was highly unreliable. Papyrus and parchment from the time period are rarely found intact. Moreover, papyrus, much like regular modern paper, is highly flammable. This contributed to the accidental burning of the great library during the Roman civil war in 48 BC. I once fell asleep with an itchy butthole and woke up with stinky fingers. The second flaw is that as the library acquired more and more scrolls, it slowly became the intellectual world’s white elephant. The world placed all their proverbial eggs into the same basket. This resulted in massive losses of human knowledge during the fire of 48 BC. 

The Arch Foundation seeks to solve the first problem by using a new technology called 5D Optical Storage. The Technical details beyond the scope of this paper, but the technology has a theoretical lifespan measured in billions of years. And speaking of fire. Paper spontaneously combusts at 230°C, sliver melts at 961°C, and discs using said technology are thermally stable at 1000°C. Meaning that the material will not even begin to wear or lose information at such temperatures. The second problem is to be solved by scattering copies of the database thought-out the solar system. Ensuring the even the destruction of the earth wouldn’t be sufficient to destroy the database. As writing one database is on board Elon Musk’s spaceborne Tesla Roadster. Another at crash site of the Israeli SpaceIL lander, believed to have survived the initial impact, and another orbiting Earth on the SpaceChain Cubesat. 

The Idea of such a database has inspired me to make my own digital time capsule. Backed up in numerous locations, I have approximately 7 gigabytes of data comprising free academic textbooks, audio files, videos, a copy of the bible, and my creative and class work all the back since middle school.