2B or not 2B...

There are companies that offer to write stuff inside diamonds for you. It's supposed to be romantic.

LOVERBOY: Darling, I have decided to give you this diamond with a love poem inscribed inside it because I care more about my narcissic feelings for you than rational captial accumulation or charity.

Carve it in cast basalt. Cheap and durable.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

If I have to do something special like that to have my words last a long time, they're not worth reading.

Homer wrote on wax and papyrus
Shakespear wrote on parchment
Hemmingway wrote on that stuff you find in the outhouse.

So; what ink do you use?

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Numbers are not case sensitive. (me)

Wouldn't it be more efficient (and cheaper) to just create a backup in some "normal" media?

Heck, you could create hundreds of them, and lose a few, and send them to your friends, even your enemies, and still be fine.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I think a laser changes the molecular structure of the "paper" to show letters. I saw it on Daily Planet on Canada's discovery channel.

Didn't impress me in the slightest. It's hard to get people here even to recycle regular paper let alone make the extra effort to to use this stuff.

Pete

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PJE

There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Paint it on a cave wall.

with the added bonus that archaeologists in the future will love you!

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

A Native American perspective: