On 10/04/2016 2:40 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
On 10/04/16 13:25, David Boxall wrote:
... Sadly, that link no longer works. ...
I found the document in the Internet Archive:
...
https://web.archive.org/web/20110403102958/http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/S13299.pdf#page=134
...
On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 22:10 +1000, Paul Brooks wrote:
> this 'old glass flows/deforms and gets thicker at the
> bottom' is an urban myth that has been debunked. The glass doesn't
> flow, the thickness gradient is a byproduct of the pouring process,
> and panes have been found that were installed
On 5/04/2016 10:45 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> Even glass is touched by time. Perhaps it will become slowly more opaque,
> carry
> certain wavelengths better (or less well), become more fragile, or deform (as
> old
> windows have flowed down so they are fatter at the bottom).
Given the
On 05/04/2016 10:52, Scott Howard wrote:
Do you have any references to fiber cabling having a lifespan of "vastly
longer than a century"? Most cable manufacturers give a stated lifetime of
somewhere in the 20-40 years, with a general industry expectation that it
will normally last more than
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andy Farkas wrote:
> David, you've mentioned this "anticipated service life" a few times now.
>
> None of us can see into the future, but what would replace something
> that can go at the (constant) speed of light? The life of a fibre cable
>
On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 09:53 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> None of us can see into the future, but what would replace something
> that can go at the (constant) speed of light? The life of a fibre
> cable is vastly longer than a century. They will probably only have
> to replace broken/crushed
Hi Andy,
It is a risk - I have seen the cables being pulled from buildings which
are to be demolished.
In the 1980s, the catchcry was to future proof buildings with optic
fibre. I wonder how much of fibre pulled out of buildings has never been
used.
The question is whether you run a fibre
On 05/04/2016 08:59, David Boxall wrote:
How far it can go in the century-or-so anticipated service life, it's
our duty to find out.
David, you've mentioned this "anticipated service life" a few times now.
None of us can see into the future, but what would replace something
that can go at the