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Okay, point taken - we certainly do have some languages still in use that that have lasted more than a millennia.

I'd posit that storage is not a solved problem, and a big part of that is a lack of confidence that we can reliably communicate with the people who will have to deal with this waste in the distant future.

There's also the inherent disdain involved in passing on massive costs and risks to future generations to solve a comparatively short-term problem of ours.




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