On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 16:18:02 -0500, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 2/3/2017 2:08 PM, Nick Danger wrote:
On 2/2/2017 9:13 PM, Jim Mueller wrote:

While tube electronics may survive a nuclear war, it is irrelevant.
There won't be any electricity to run them. The power plants are
controlled by computers. Likewise, having your own generator won't help
either. Many of the new ones are also semiconductor based, and you won't
be able to get gas to run them since the pumps at the gas station are run
by electricity which won't be available. Solar cells are also
semiconductors and the inverters used with them also use semiconductors.
So, if there is a WW3, don't count on ANYTHING electrical working.


Seeing as you brought up WW3, for those of you that may not know it, a
new president singlehandedly advanced the Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds
just last week. Heck of a job!


Get off of it. You lost.

Lets NOT go there.....

In all honesty, I think WE ALL LOST. But we would have lost with either
of the lousy candidates we had to pick from.

Enough politics..... Lets stick to electronics. A lot more fun, and
likely a lot safer too....
I'd rather get zapped by a high voltage power supply than a president
with his fingers on the nuclear botton.