They should have called it a "Memnotron".

The vacuum tube will NEVER die! Really, hi power switching applications using tubes are cheaper and SMALLER than ss--this is cause a plasma can conduct power densities that would turn any semiconductor to, well, plasma.

Wikipedia has great vac tube pages. For modern tube info, search "holotron" or "crossatron" very interesting developements.

Hey, does anyone remember the name and author of that satirical scifi story where china and usa attack eachother with earth quakes generated by everyone in the country similtaneously jumping off their chairs?
And everyone ended up doing it constantly to deflect eachothers attack?

It was a great allegory for the chill conflict anyway...

Mao more than ever!

The bottom left one is chopsticks picking up noodles--Im not Nipponese so I had to think on that.

The only possible name for such a company is:

BAR-NONE!

simon

Dihydrogen monoxide rules!

I have heard of athletes overhydrating to the point of death, so its not merely a harmless myth.

Dehydration is also the easiest way to lose weight!

simon

OOOH! Papercraft! It must be cool.

Will you put up my papercraft BAG?

Some of the pc stuff is cool, but this is merely a BOX! Think outside it.

simon

This is the wrong way to do adobe (which is used all over the sw and thus, likely legal).

I have only seen the right way once, and it is so much better than bricks Im amazed they presist:

Make a cement footer foundation.

Pony clamp plywood sheets to it

ram in slightly moist earth--repeat

4 of us with no heavy eqpt did all the interior and xterior walls of a 2000sq ft house to 8' in a couple weeks.

Lots less bricklaying that way.

The artist of course was Pablo Pistachio!

They say he was nuuuuts...

I just flew Indy wash--beckley Wva and back tue thru thu with lots of electronics and cables and wasnt asked to remove anything.

--SXA

Well, Im concerned about the whole idea. How can you be sure the capsule breaks? What if a soft, bouncy, material is on fire?
Id use the compressed air to propel a powdered or liquid agent--these really work on any fire you can get near.