GitHub bury its entire repository under the North Pole to prevent the apocalypse happening

Our world can be destroyed at any time by weapons of terrifying destruction, climate change or a meteorite that can collide with the Earth. In fear of the apocalypse, GitHub is planning to conserve its huge data for decades by safely burying them at the ends of the Earth. The GitHub project is called the Archive Program.

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To preserve all of their open source software for future generations, this block of data will be stored continuously in many formats and buried in various locations on Earth. One of them is the Arctic World Archive, a cellar hidden 250m deep under an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, not far from the cellar of Doomsday seeds.

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GitHub uses film rolls coated with iron oxide powder to store data. This way, the next generation can use a computer or simply a magnifying glass to read them. Crucially, under the conditions of lack of oxygen and cold like under the cave, these films have a lifespan of up to 1,000 years, even 2,000 years.

A total of more than 6,000 other important open source applications will be hosted first. It includes source code for Android and Linux operating systems, programming languages, AI tools, web platforms and cryptocurrencies .

GitHub plans to store all of its public repositories by February 2020.

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Each film reel has a capacity of about 120GB and is placed in a white plastic box. To store its entire repository, GitHub needs about 200 such rolls.

The data block is placed next to the preserved documents of countries in digital form such as scientific breakthroughs, archaeological findings, historical manuscripts, works of art, music, etc. This data will be used to rebuild global societies if apocalypse happens.

In the case of our world forever peaceful, these data will act as a time cocoon, saving the values ​​of today.

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