Is Water Archival?

[P3D Bill Davis <bd3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark wrote:

>Bill, you _totally_ don't understand slide storage.  Obviously, RBT's 
>sink right down to the bottom of the fishtank I use (saltwater, of 
>course).  
>See, the water is good for insulating the slides against harmful 
>humidity changes (always 100% in the tank).


Of course! I have heard of underwater stereos before, but in my 
ignorance I had always thought they meant something commpletely 
different.  What a dolt I am.  Boy I sure am grateful to you smart 
people on this list!  To protect against harmful temperature 
fluctuations you would maintain a steady boil, right?
 

>The secret is to use one of those hard to find plutonium-based 
>staticmasters (not to be confused with the more common polonium-based 
>staticmaster), because after a couple of shots with the plutonium 
>brush, the slides repel everything.  The water stays a comfortable .01 
>mm away from the surface of the emulsion.  I highly recommend 
>saltwater storage to anyone who can find the rare plutonium 
>staticmaster.  A 30 gallon tank can safely store about a thousand 
>slides.


I live near Ginna nuclear power plant here in NY (within the 
"Evacuation Zone" as they say, right Rick?).  I bet if I call them up I 
can get some of that plutoniumm-laced reactor water to fill my tank 
with.  That will kill two birds (maybe lots more, actually) with one 
stone.  I won't need the staticmaster and the slides won't need 
external illumination, they'll glow from within!  Ya know, maybe I'm 
not so dumb after all.

>Mark Josephson 

Best Regards,
Bill Davis


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