Microsoft's project Silica: Is glass the future of long term storage?(unlocked.microsoft.com)
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Microsoft's project Silica: Is glass the future of long term storage?
https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/
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Is this new? There's no dates on anything :/ Or is it from like 2019 when there was a lot of news coverage of the project
Seems like it's new. The video on the page is from two weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfEYd4NGQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfEYd4NGQg
This reminds me of the glass record from Dr.Stone…
I guess this could be the CD-ROM of the future.
I guess this could be the CD-ROM of the future.
How does gravitational drag affect the glass over time?
Obviously they'd look into this but, it's important if I were going to have confidence in such long term storage.
Obviously they'd look into this but, it's important if I were going to have confidence in such long term storage.
Glass isn't an extremely viscous liquid, it doesn't flow over long periods of time. Old medieval windows are thicker at the bottom because glass making was not precise enough to make sufficiently flat pieces back then, and pieces to be installed were always installed thick end down.
Or more exactly the process was entirely different from how large panes are made starting from 1950s... They were essentially blown and flattened like other glass items. Where as now we float massive continuous sheets over molten tin, thus having uniform thickness...
They also seem to use the storage at an angle to reduce the drag from sitting.