07-01-2014, 01:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by luke strawwalker
"Dead trees" works without power, at school or in areas where technology access is restricted (such as in school), and in areas where you don't have wifi or net access...
1's and 0's, not so much...
Course most kids, like my nephews, are ready to sit down and cry and don't know what to do with themselves if they lose access to their technology for more than 10 minutes nowdays... sad...
Later! OL JR  |
Depending on their ages, you may have the perfect terrifying stories with which to regale them at Halloween--another Carrington (solar) Event, or an Iranian high-altitude EMP nuclear attack, would turn their electronic "play-pretties" into fancy paperweights. :-) (The history and photos of the Teak, Orange, Project Argus, and Project Fishbowl nuclear tests [the William Shatner-narrated video "The Rainbow Bombs" has great footage of these in-space nuclear tests], which fried several satellites' electronics, would demonstrate what would happen.) Also (regarding the descriptive text in today's model rocket catalogs):
I particularly miss the connections and parallels with the space program that the old catalogs made. For example, in the early 1970s Centuri catalogs, the rocket engines section described how they are dangerous to produce and require expensive, specialized equipment operated by highly-skilled & trained people. At the bottom it said (going from memory here) "Even Dr. Wernher von Braun selected a contractor to provide the engines for his rockets. Let Centuri be *your* rocket engine contractor." |