Jeffrey Kripal says Rice’s ‘Archive of the Impossible’ includes about a million documents stored offsite

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"So, the archives themselves, it's a it it's three stories. You're looking at three stories. And that's actually what it looks like. And they're stored offsite, which means not on the university campus, in a special building that's literally three stories tall. And the archives of the impossible or the center for the impossible as it's called now is about 2% of the archival holdings. So it represents 2% of what you're seeing there. But it represents 50 to 60% of research interests."

Jeffrey Kripal, a Rice University professor involved with the ‘Archive/Center for the Impossible’, describes the physical scale of the storage as a three-storey offsite facility. He says the ‘Archive of the Impossible’ represents about 2% of Rice’s archival holdings—roughly a million documents—but accounts for 50–60% of research interest from visitors.