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To: Moonman62
How will this make our lives better?

Off the top of my head, would make it possible to make very low-noise optical tuned parametric amplifiers.

I haven't seen enough technical data to really be sure, but such devices could have significant effects in many areas of technology.

It's amazing how rapidly technological miracles become woven into the fabric of everyday life and essentially forgotten, except that they are used all the time.

For example, the computing and communications power in an iPhone, gigahertz information processors and multi-gigahertz radios, is amazing enough. But to run it for hours on a tiny battery, with minimal heat generation, is even more amazing.

Yet hundreds of millions of people who use the technology and benefit from it are completely unaware of it, take it for granted, except to complain about what it costs.

The same could be said for many other things, such as optical fibers, superalloys that make things like miniature earphones and tiny high-power motors possible, miniature TV cameras, etc.

9 posted on 06/06/2017 9:59:33 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom

I’m glad you’re on our side.


12 posted on 06/06/2017 10:08:28 AM PDT by Postman (The Flies have finished defining BHO and HRC and will be moving on)
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To: Steely Tom

“Yet hundreds of millions of people who use the technology and benefit from it are completely unaware of it, take it for granted, except to complain about what it costs.”

In a way I feel sorry for those people. There is a joy and awe that they are missing out on due to their unawareness. It’s similar to someone not being able to appreciate great works of art, literature, music.


16 posted on 06/06/2017 10:18:00 AM PDT by aquila48
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