[timemct]

> There's an entire cottage industry built around people etching their seed phrases on steel plates for people to (I'm not kidding) bury them like they're gold in the 1800s.

"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted." - The Well of Ascension, by Brandon Sanderson

[poulpi]

Actually, if you want something to stay, you should go for stone rather than metal.

Stone have low market value while metal can always be melted to do something else (like weapons).

It's one of my main take away of my art history lessons -> most antic art done on metal has been lost, but the stone remains!

[itronitron]

A friend of mine would use fiberglass resin, bondo, and plywood because they wanted their sculptures, which they then boxed into custom-sized crates, to last for at least one hundred years.

[inasio]

That was also what they went with in the 3 body problem

[bussierem]

I know this type of comment (and my own) is more common to reddit and commonly frowned upon in HN threads, but by god this made my morning thank you.

[Karzyn]

FYI, that's what the little arrow next to their name is for.

[pcthrowaway]

I think certain types of metal have the advantage of being more likely to survive a fire, but I'm not sure.

Stone is susceptible to cracking/shattering if caught in a house fire right?