Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:16:57 +0100, D wrote:
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Fascinating! Thank you for sharing!

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I never saw one but there were also ELF transmitters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency
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I think some of the frequencies are still in use but nobody is talking.
Imagine what it would be like if humans could directly perceive the sea of
electromagnetic radiation we live in.
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One project I turned down was a botanist with a theory that trees
communicated via electromagnetic waves. The idea hasn't gone away.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-
trees-180968084/
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There is evidence that EMFs do affect trees though.
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https://ehtrust.org/electromagnetic-fields-impact-tree-plant-growth/
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Sometimes for the better?
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519600-500-forest-grows-tall-on-
radio-waves/
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It reminds me of when RF heat sealers were introduced. The folklore
suggested that women working around them either became sterile or
amazingly fecund. Humans love their stories.

Shouldn't it be quite easy to prove? I mean EMF:s can be measured and plants can be measured and analyzed?
I've been thinking about if online surveillance and government control might not force us back to some kind of fidonet-like architecture, run on cellphone modems, lora radios or over ham-radio bridges.
Latency would be huge, but that never stopped me with my 9600 modem, and for talking like this, is not a problem. Downloading massive amounts of data would be painful though.