I suspect most people who will enter this thread will know how. Aka the zombie apocalypse? My prediction is for sometime next year or so for a major sun event which does significant damage to electrical devices.
>I'm fairly versed with physics and engineering and think I could get things to around 1930s electronics if it weren't for my gaps in chemistry. How about you?
I have my various specialties, but I think that's not the biggest part of things, specialties are what go away. Offline-archive as much library as possible. Solar powered devices, low energy devices, simple devices are the best.
Here's just off the top of my head the important things.
Heat milk up to below boiling point for awhile. Pastueurization.
Copper wire wrapped iron core, electromagnet. Water wheel + electromagnet = motor.
Electricity + tungsten = lightbulb.
electricity + a specific length wire = radio.
Measure this radio coming back = radar.
How much salvage is there and what's the population? Are there any threats? Is this a "Robinson Crusoe" scenario? Or "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
He is talking about Denmark's government debt but I think it applies to the entire world
excerpt from Either/Or.
From what I know of politics, it would be an easy matter for Denmark to take out a loan of fifteen millions.
Why does no one think of that? That some person is genius enough not to pay his debt, that at least is something one hears of now and then; why shouldn’t a state be able to do the same if only all are agreed? So we take out a loan of fifteen millions yet use it not to pay our debts but for public pleasure. Let us celebrate the thousand-year reign with joy and merriment.
Just as there are boxes everywhere to put money in, so there should be bowls of money everywhere. Everything would be free, people would go to the theatre free, have free access to the streetwalkers, take free drives to the park, be buried free of charge, have someone speak over their coffin free of charge; for when one always has money in hand everything is in a sense gratis. No one need own property.
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