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)
How experimental are we going? There’s some cool research into laser etching data into crystal cubes. That should be very stable, but I don’t know how you’d get to the tech.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
Steal it from the enemy time travelers, obviously. 😁