AFSAlameda
AFSAlameda t1_ixku4yt wrote
Reply to comment by mmrrbbee in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
No, you're underestimating the infrastructure requirements to make a high tension power distribution grid. You need power to make the components.
AFSAlameda t1_ixkqkqa wrote
Reply to comment by mmrrbbee in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
Um no, it won't. The amount of energy pumped through the electricity network will destroy the actual physical infrastructure.
AFSAlameda t1_ixkqgfa wrote
Reply to comment by virdestratera in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
The big power transformers at major power stations take 10 years to build and need a lot of electricity to make. Rebuilding a distributed power generation network for one country would take a generation or two. By which stage civilisation has completely collapsed and with maybe a few exceptions the knowledge of how to maintain even the most basic of cohesive social groupings will have faded.
AFSAlameda t1_iw96zej wrote
Reply to comment by scealeile in Where do you buy your books? by nothumaninside
If you want to be sent damaged books with pages missing, they are awesome.
AFSAlameda t1_iw96wut wrote
Reply to comment by pbc120 in Where do you buy your books? by nothumaninside
Local bookstore is worse than Amazon/Book Suppository. I hate standing at a counter for minutes while the clerk completely ignores me for minutes. This is not exaggerating 30 seconds into minutes either. Minutes goes through awkward and into a breach of the Geneva Convention articles on the treatment of PoWs. I have another local 80 kilometers away who always come through and are fast and friendly.
AFSAlameda t1_itnhal9 wrote
Reply to Are typos supposed to be so common in books? Or am I just ending up getting poorly edited ones? by rabidpiano86
Sub-editors. They all got fired. They were the ones doing the work. Editor is an exec position in publishing firms. This is also the reason why online news sites suck. Subbies used to re-write articles to make them readable.
AFSAlameda t1_ixl4xxh wrote
Reply to comment by nesquikchocolate in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
You guys aren't getting it. Any copper cabling goes up in a puff of smoke.