Unlikely. Wikipedia can be backed up on a thumb drive, and millions of various storage media are being produced every year, perhaps into perpetuity. The damaged media are replaced faster than they break. Even something as cataclysmic as Chicxulub isn't going to wipe all of them, and probably not even all humans who will continue carrying the content forward. We are the species best suited for eternal preservation so far as we know.

[–] Opafi@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Nah. Most modern media are so deeply unsuited for long term reliability we came up with the whole pattern of constant backups and replacements. However, once civilization collapses, these things won't last very long.

Earth is just pretty damn good at crushing stuff. With plants constantly producing oxygen, our atmosphere just keeps oxidising everything, resulting in things breaking sooner or later. With earth's core being liquid and tectonic movements everywhere, we can't build large scale stuff that lasts. Sure, with a little luck somebody will find a human fossil at some point, but dinosaurs roamed this planet for hundreds of millions of years and finding one of their skeletons is quite an event - we're pretty far from that.

Mankind has absolutely no idea how to preserve stuff for eternity on this planet. And a thumb drive (or digital storage in general) is not even something that's supposed to last.