• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah and mass manufactured CD’s are physically stamped into aluminum and then covered in polycarbonate.

    In 20 years some new type of degradation might be observed and people will say, “Oh yeah, we didn’t think of that.”

    For example the etching could start micro fractures from repeated heating and cooling that happens over the long term.