Tape Drive Capstans

[David Griffith]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, tony duell wrote:

>>> On 29 January 2015 at 21:45, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
>> > > And then store them in the dark in a vacuum at 0 degrees kelvin?
>> > >
>> > No, the outgassing of volatiles would be a problem...
>> >
>> 
>> Technically there should be no out gassing at 0 Kelvin.... ;)
>
> Ah yes, but then there are the 3 laws of thermodynamics which have been expressed as : 
>
> 1st : You can't win, you can only break even
>
> 2nd : You can only break even at absolute zero
>
> 3rd : You can't get to absolute zerp
                                   ^^^^

I'm going to add "zerp" to my list of synonyms for "zero".


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