egamble

That was my first thought as well. I can see how air relatively close to the surface could geyser out, but I'd guess that deeper air would likely be trapped. Given the high pressure and density farther down, compressed blueberries would probably behave like the rock that traps water and methane in the Earth's crust. Because of the trapped air, maybe the planet would shrink a little less than the author predicts. (Of course it will shrink a lot, because the air compresses, but maybe just a little less than predicted.)

I wrote something like that several years ago: https://github.com/egamble/let-else

It's losing. For some reason, I see the "loosing" misspelling more often now than a few years ago. It seems to be a sort of orthographical meme that's spreading.

One hopes that the write speed of these disks will be proportionately faster than DVD write speed. A DVD writing at 16X transfers about 22MB/s. At that rate it would take 1.44 years to fill up this disk writing to it continuously. Even at 1GB/s (roughly the write speed of an SSD) it would take almost 12 days to fill up one of these disks.

I'm an Alcor member. For me, it's a no-brainer. It might have a low probability of success. (Depends on your assumptions.) Regardless, it's a higher chance than if I were buried or cremated. Since epsilon > zero, I signed up.