So, here’s the deal: You’ve managed to acquire the data, but disaster strikes, and your time machine is destroyed by an enemy time traveler team. This is crucial historical data that you’ll have to get into the future to avert the apocalypse. Due to the constraints of the space-time continuum, all time travelers staying outside of their “home” time for longer than 1 year will die, so you have exactly 1 year to prepare. How do you make sure the future discovers the data, while preventing the enemy time traveler faction from stealing the data?
(Remember: don’t just chuck it in a hard drive and bury it in a forest somewhere, the data will degrade)
Based on the past, it seems vinyl records are near indestructible. So, embedding the data in that somehow and keeping it cool might work.
Printed might also work but it’s a lot of data. Microfiche maybe?
Another option might be to use some form of nuclear battery to keep a bunch of multi TB SSDs powered up.
That radiation is gonna flip a lot of bits in the SSDs
Separate the compartments with lead then?