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Data Saved In Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years
Scientific American ^
| 1/6/13
| Timothy Hornyak
Posted on 01/06/2013 9:04:59 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
In before the Indiana Jones reference.
To: LibWhacker
Fascinating.
Quartz lasts the test of time and it does sing.
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:09:03 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: SunkenCiv
To: ConservativeChris
In before the Indiana Jones reference. In before the Superman / Krypton reference.
To: LibWhacker; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Well, my 8-track tape of Montana Slim can last a 100 years too, but find a reader or anyone who remembers and wants to hear Montana!
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:14:15 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: LibWhacker
It is of note that the entire data world we take for granted now falls back on the lowly quartz crystal for its piezoelectric quality’s.
A small bit of quartz stimulated with voltage sings and becomes a clock to clock all our digital data.
Lord your world is so wonderful.
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:17:26 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: LibWhacker
Awesome! I’ll never lose my Jersey Shore episodes now!
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:17:48 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! [You can vote Democrat when you're dead]...)
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To: LibWhacker
CAIR and other Muslim apologists will be greatly displeased witth data storage on quartz. Muslims burned libraries everywhere they went, whenever they could.
Imagine a Goat F*cker, oops, Muslim trying to burn quartz.
;-)
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:19:27 PM PST
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
To: LibWhacker
They'll be watching the Honeymooners in 300 million years!
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:20:09 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Tzar
Yes, but synthetic diamond is becoming more common. Relatively cheap 20X20X2 mm clear pieces are well within the realm of possibility before the end of the decade.
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:21:12 PM PST
by
null and void
(The world is full of Maple Streets.)
To: Revolting cat!
Slim Who?
☺
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:21:12 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv
Interesting.
As a (retired) chip-maker, I've often wondered if we should look for a form of sub-micron communications from previous or alien intelligent sources?
I contributed to the making of chips that are about to leave the solar system on the Voyager space craft. I wonder where they'll be 100 million years from now? Will someone find them one day?
SunkenCiv, want to get a SEM and begin doing some micro archaeology?
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01/06/2013 9:23:43 PM PST
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blam
To: Revolting cat!
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01/06/2013 9:25:52 PM PST
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Revolting cat!
I just went to YouTube. He yodels too. You can keep your 8-trac though. I don’t want it.
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posted on
01/06/2013 9:31:44 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
To: Tzar
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01/06/2013 9:33:16 PM PST
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null and void
(The world is full of Maple Streets.)
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