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WCDT strips 3676 to 3680 (12th to 16th February 2018)
cesium133:
There was, but it was defunded in the budget crisis following Doratengate.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Jeemy on 13 Feb 2018, 13:16 ---
There is still no long-term solution for this! Hard disc hasn't been round long enough to prove itself against 2-4" tape. Long-term storage is actually not something we have any solution to - save to keep moving the media from place to place - but thats impossible if you wish to keep your audio in the analogue realm....
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The company whose disk technology you want is a tiny little outfit named Norsam. They record analog documents, as analog documents, on disc. If you render your audio optically - the way laserdiscs recorded analog audio optically for example - you can record it as a spiral trace on a Norsam disc.
The discs are nickel-and-ceramic, and the digital format at highest density - 65 Gbytes - are expected to last, as best anybody can extrapolate from testing, at least 400 years. If you are willing to write at lower density, you can achieve expected stability times of a thousand years or so with 2-3 Gbytes per disc. They are strictly write-once, and the writers are horrifyingly expensive. At the lower data densities you can read them directly with a microscope - no laser light required.
Los Alamos, testing them on analog text documents for military applications, did things like putting the disks into air heated to 300 degrees Celsius (temperature of a house fire) for 65 hours, or in seawater for 14 weeks, and discovering that they were still perfectly readable afterward.
Norsam's main businesses are jewelry - micro-etched surfaces for a bewildering variety of optical effects - and analog document storage - Where they etch texts directly onto disks so readers can read it directly as graphics with high-powered microscopes (sort of a modern replacement for microfiche). The HD-ROM stuff for digital storage is something they consider a minor sideline.
LilBlueSky:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Feb 2018, 23:05 ---
Now, looking at panel 5, doesn't it look like Marigold may be pregnant?
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I thought so too and I even showed my husband (who only follows the comic because I show it to him every day whenever I read it lol)... Even HE thought she liked
NemesisDancer:
Cute detail I noticed: in the fourth frame Emily's hair appears to perk up slightly at her excitement at seeing Marigold xD
Perfectly Reasonable:
I note that Marigold is wearing a hoodie devoid of nerdisms.
Also her acne is nearly gone.
Is she (ulp) maturing?
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