Re: [BKARTS] printing for eternity

["quilter@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <quilter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi  Coming late to the party but I saw a piece of carved jade at the
Guggenheim that had been dug up in China that was over 2000 years
old.  Apparently jade is as durable as diamonds and comes in bigger
pieces.  It can also be sliced very thin.  A book with pages of leaf
thin jade - now you're talking.

DTFletcher wrote
> > there already is a writing system that should be about as permanent
> > as >>possible. Laser etched diamonds.  If a diamond truely lasts
> > forever, then a >>diamond with laser etched writing on it would
> > truely be printing for eternity.
--
Henrietta in Blue Hill Maine

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