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Microsoft's futuristic 'Project Silica' stores data on glass plates for 10,000 years (www.pcworld.com)
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[โ€“] asdfasdfasdf -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the explanation for windows looking like they're melting then?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

they were made that way. ours today are very even because we use a different process (layer of molten glass on a layer of molten tin, makes a perfectly smooth sheet of glass) They did not have our technology back then. So their sheets had uneven thickness. Also, some windows are thicker on top, not t the bottom, because they happened to be mounted that way and they did not change shape.