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

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[–] calavera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which liquid property? I don't see any

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the churches glass deforming overtime were indeed a mith