http://blog.longnow.org/2007/04/09/the-granite-vaults-of-geneology/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:54:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/04/09/the-granite-vaults-of-geneology/comment-page-1/#comment-5565 7 More Underground Wonders of the World | WebUrbanist Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:29:55 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/04/09/the-granite-vaults-of-geneology/#comment-5565 [...] Mormon Genealogical Vaults: The Mormons have some of the most sophisticated and thorough genealogical records in the world - 500 million pages of statistics dating back hundreds of years. So where does one horde such a rare treasure for safe-keeping? There is a nuke-proof underground bunker where the backups are kept carved into a granite cliffside outside of Salt Lake City. While the data is available to the public these original archival copies are kept completely secure. The folks of the Long Now project managed to get access but could only photograph the exterior. Inside, says their intrepid representative, long rows of microfilm storage resemble the endless stacks from The Matrix and a central water-catch zone (from the rock above) is reminiscent of Fremen water catches from Dune. [...] [...] Mormon Genealogical Vaults: The Mormons have some of the most sophisticated and thorough genealogical records in the world – 500 million pages of statistics dating back hundreds of years. So where does one horde such a rare treasure for safe-keeping? There is a nuke-proof underground bunker where the backups are kept carved into a granite cliffside outside of Salt Lake City. While the data is available to the public these original archival copies are kept completely secure. The folks of the Long Now project managed to get access but could only photograph the exterior. Inside, says their intrepid representative, long rows of microfilm storage resemble the endless stacks from The Matrix and a central water-catch zone (from the rock above) is reminiscent of Fremen water catches from Dune. [...]

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