[ShadowAce]

Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!

[ShadowAce]

[Vermont Lt]

Well…isn’t this how Superman stored all of his knowledge from Krypton?

[Wuli]

And the material for glass is superabundent

[TangoLimaSierra]

Just don’t drop it.

[Omnivore-Dan]

I’m a retired mainframe dinosaur, was a database specialist as an independent consultant. This stuff still interests me, and I remember when they were exploring quartz crystals for storage, never really followed up on the research.

[Tench_Coxe]

Like thendidsks in Star Trek’s “All Our Yesterdays”.

[Wuli]

Ahhh, but terbium is one of the rarest of rare earth minerals

[Buttons12]

It’ll never replace lenticular gag shop spectacles.

[wildcard_redneck]

The hippies were right. Crystals have awesome powers.

[Carry_Okie]

It remembers everything but only if you keep it in the dark?

It would seem appropriate.

[Dr. Franklin]

An interesting theory which is far from usefulness or practical application.

[OneVike]

In the remake movie of the time machine, there is a library advisor that obviously runs without electricity. His image is vewable in glass, even 100's of thousands of years later the advisor can communicate things. It is incased in glass. Of course they made it a minority man to keep up with the woke culture in Hollywood

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Openurmind]

“Then, to fully erase the patterns without changing the structure of the glass, the team applied heat at 1022 degrees Fahrenheit (550 degrees Celsius) for 25 minutes.”

Wonder how much this furnace/laptop is going to weigh?

[Tymesup]

Glass molecules move around. Very slowly, but doesn’t that pose a problem for long term storage?