"13.8 billion years"
Uh, our sun is due to expand into a super giant and then burn out into a white dwarf in about 5 billion years so there won't even be an Earth by then so these glass storage devices better be off-planet by that time!
Well... considering the plans for the hyperspace bypass have been posted locally for years, the Vogon constructor fleet may show up much earlier than that!
Say, how IS your tolerance for poetry? I'm going to grab a towel.