Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Hobbs Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: some electronics for a speed controlled electromagnetic gun Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:30:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <7nqt6j1uoakdnnqk37bvlj5vss03damatg@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:30:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a2f2a4a65a9f24abe5346c6e2a4f6bfc"; logging-data="221694"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18CTtYoP2PV13NEvnx8iieO" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y5tGZK6WAitlIyKvsMUWdcMxemo= sha1:PqPplo6/9rJa7AnDB0papN7cinU= Bytes: 2492 john larkin wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs > wrote: > >> john larkin wrote: >>> >>> >>> Humans in space make no sense. >>> >>> >> Most of us don’t make that much down here either. ;) >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil Hobbs > > 1000 years ago 80% of the population was farmers who barely grew > enough to survive. Clothes were so valuable that people were killed > for theirs. Most people were illiterate and lived in the dark when the > sun went down. > > Progress has made us so efficient that probably 80% of the > developed-world population now has zero net productivity. Well, given that 100% of what gets counted as productivity is devoted to things that quickly pass away, it’s hard to get too worked up about that. Materialism (of either the philosophical or the vernacular sort) ends in futility.(*) Cheers Phil “ray of sunshine” Hobbs (*) Fortunately, both kinds are mistaken. -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics