[time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material

[Bill Hawkins]

Warning: Way OT

When the vacuum tube was born, there were half as many people on
this planet, and global climate change wasn't a problem. Very few
people will talk about populution. It's as if there was a blind
spot in the brain. Maybe there's no intelligent life in the
Universe because all life evolves with similar selection pressures.
Once technology removes natural predators (or stops world wars with
the atomic bomb), population heads for the sky until the big die-off.

If other people don't have a problem with having four kids, I have
no problem with using vacuum tubes and Edison bulbs.

All in my humble opinion, of course.

Bill Hawkins

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:50 PM

Steve Rooke wrote:
> Wasn't life so much easier with valves (tubes)...
Nostalgia?

Valves (tubes) warmer in close proximity, yes. Global warming should 
make that, on average, less helpful.
........
 glowing bulbs
Other than that memory, and certain trade-offs at big Rf power, I'll say 
I no longer encourage the glowing bulbs for most things.