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"I should finally not bring a giant pile of old computers with me just because I haven't bothered to destroy their old drives this time. I'll just gut all of them and see how many drives I have to destroy"
*pile of gutted metallic corpses to the side, beholding a tower of spinning platter babel*
"oh my god"
Image description: a pile of smashed and dented hard drive plates shimmering in the light
@mlemweb @cwebber 120 years later: after the great breakthrough of curing aging, now scientists can extract data from photos of hard disk platters, even those that have sustained damage.