Hardware

4877 readers

38 users here now

This is a community dedicated to the hardware aspect of technology, from PC parts, to gadgets, to servers, to industrial control equipment, to semiconductors.

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to electronic hardware
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

205

Microsoft's glass data storage system saves terabytes for 10,000 years (newatlas.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

44 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You are telling me that if we heat glass it would deform? Who would have thought about that right

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Heat in this context means any temperature above -273.15°C. Steel doesn't display liquid properties at "room temperature", glass does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which liquid property? I don't see any

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Deforming on time scales longer than a human life, so that's why you wouldn't see it. It might indeed be an urban legend, I don't know, but given the claims in the article I cited I wouldn't entirely discount the possibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, the churches glass deforming overtime were indeed a mith