Re: OT: some electronics for a speed controlled electromagnetic gun

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:30:32 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
 

john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:

<sniiip>
 
Humans in space make no sense.
 
 

Most of us don?t make that much down here either. ;)
 
Cheers
 
Phil Hobbs

 
1000 years ago 80% of the population was farmers who barely grew
enough to survive. Clothes were so valuable that people were killed
for theirs. Most people were illiterate and lived in the dark when the
sun went down.
 
Progress has made us so efficient that probably 80% of the
developed-world population now has zero net productivity.

>
Well, given that 100% of what gets counted as productivity is devoted to
things that quickly pass away, it’s hard to get too worked up about that. 
>
Materialism (of either the philosophical or the vernacular sort) ends in
futility.(*)
>
Cheers
>
Phil “ray of sunshine” Hobbs
>
(*) Fortunately, both kinds are mistaken.

Well, people do like food, energy, shelter, and transportation.
Material things. I'd guess that 20% of our population makes that
stuff.

The rest, entertainment and fancy cooking and legal services and art
and music and most government and most education is kinda luxuries.

Medicine is a big biz and mostly worth it.

Electronic design is maybe half fluff these days, entertainment.