People often ask me why I don’t have a Facebook account and the list of reasons I give them has just gotten longer.

But at some point, wouldn’t enough generations go by that the differences are just too vast to recover the data? And at the rate bacteria reproduce, wouldn’t that be relatively quick?

It’s pretty simple to add error correcting codes to whatever data you want to store. It’s basically adding extra data that lets you recover from errors, but it obviously reduces how much data you can store because you’re adding redundant data.

No, no, no, you misunderstand. It doesn't preferentially absorb one or the other. It favors neither matter or antimatter. It's entirely down to chance.

"Realistically speaking, you are dead as soon as you get anywhere near a black hole. "