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EMP attacks won’t wipe out your memory nor disable slide rules.


71 posted on 12/18/2011 12:09:24 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: tbpiper

“EMP attacks won’t wipe out your memory nor disable slide rules.”

AND the graphite in pencil lead isn’t long enough to generate enough current to melt the eraser on top either!

JC


131 posted on 12/18/2011 8:14:08 PM PST by cracker45
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To: tbpiper

“EMP attacks won’t wipe out your memory nor disable slide rules.”

POST! K&E!

Slide Rules....RULE! ;-)

It is amazing how much stuff was designed (preliminary design) using just three significant digits!

People raised on calculators will give you a 6 or 8 significant digit answer just because that’s what the calculator says, despite their having only 2 or 3 significant digit input data. Journalists writing about science & technology are especially bad about this. They believe that it is proof of precision.


137 posted on 12/19/2011 12:41:26 PM PST by BwanaNdege (“Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address” - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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