"Everything they do is designed to withstand the passage of time," Xiang Shan said.
"Why do you say that?" Ingrid glanced at her notebook, then carefully examined the alien tablets.
"Choosing this method to record information means they were originally prepared for voyages lasting hundreds of thousands or even millions of years—prepared with enough noise resistance to combat any possible data loss in those hundreds of thousands of years."
What exactly is the concept of "a hundred thousand years"?
A physicist once quoted an ancient prophet, claiming "mountains flow before God." The properties of fluids and solids are related to the duration of physical processes. On such a long time scale, even hard rock can display the characteristics of fluids, with the land undulating like waves. One hundred thousand years are enough in tectonically active areas to grow mountains kilometers high.
