No pi stock anywhere and delivery times out to end 2023!

Am 13.05.2022 um 17:43 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:

I own a Pi 400, a Pi Zero and a Pico.

Should I put it in the bay and retire? ;-)

FW

Maybe. Its probably $1000 if you do.

You'd triple your money just buying kits from official stockists here in Aus and selling them there if that were the case.

On a sunny day (Sun, 15 May 2022 01:50:12 GMT) it happened snipped-for-privacy@alfter.diespammersdie.us wrote in <o%YfK.5034$ snipped-for-privacy@fx97.iad:

Just imagine what will happen in case of nuclear war when a large EM (Electro Magnetic) impulse is caused by nuke detonation in the upper atmosphere. Not a singe computer or computerized gadget (cars smartphones, what not) will work anymore. Your only chance of transport is the old diesel (if you can get one and fuel). I think it is a big mistake to rely on chips everywhere given the tendency of humans to make wars for profit or robbery. Not even mentioning the electric grid getting hit by hackers or bombs. No emergency services as those are electric too. No lights no cooking no food.

No official stockist I found anywhere in the world had stock

If you have access to stock, buy it and resell it

That is absolutely not a given.

Many circuits that are not on and in relatively shielded enclosures would survive. As would all passive fibre optics and many chips simply in storage.

Well we could always go back to valves (tubes)

On a sunny day (Tue, 17 May 2022 11:21:27 +0100) it happened The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid wrote in <t5vsv7$jc1$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Some, I had a metal box with some transistors in the sixties, next to my powerful ham radio transmitter The RF transistors no longer worked. But that was a lot of Watts. Even if some survive, and you have your sun powered soldering iron, modern things like stupid-phones etc are not so easy to fix.

I have done lots of design with tubes, pity I do not have any anymore.. OTOH no heater no power sucking.

I do think not many people keep their smartphone in a metal box, doing it with your car keys against hackers does help. No more bank cards that work after the EMP, no more cash..

But not much use anyways when there are no radio and TV stations around anymore. One way to hear from the rest of the world is shortwave of via ham satellite (QO100) perhaps.

Was reading UK fish and chip stands may disappear too... Now THAT would be bad!

Indeed.

Oh good, that's OK then.

:-)

These are the *small* problems - oh and that old diesel, does it have a hand crank to start it and are you built like Charles Atlas ?

The larger problems will be. Are you safe from fallout ? Do you have clean land to grow food in ? Do you have uncontaminated seeds ? Do you have enough to survive until they grow ? Is there a viable concentration of people with all of this anywhere on the planet ? Are you in one of them ?

If there's a single no in all of that in the event of nuclear war then follow these simple instructions:

Bend over, place your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye.

On a sunny day (Tue, 17 May 2022 17:29:51 +0100) it happened Ahem A Rivet's Shot snipped-for-privacy@eircom.net wrote in snipped-for-privacy@eircom.net:

LOL, yes, I have hand-cranked my old car..

It depends, I had BIG fear for nuclear, then later I worked in that field a while always found them careless, a year after I left that whole place got contaminated.. But really, we had Chernobyl fallout here, do not eat stuff from your garden air filters from the aircos where I worked had to be replaced as those were hot. I measure radiation 24/7 these days. have designed and build a gamma spectrometer, its sitting next to me..

Really, it is not all that bad, wildlife at Chernobyl is thriving, mainly because no humans are there to kill it. I have some iodine pills and a few month of food.. including emergency for on the boat. After that I will have to hunt or fish, have a special water filter, may buy a de-salinator.

Oh, that is so silly, most normal people have a will to live, not a death wish. The Humming Beans will find a way. Sure, civilization as we know it may disappear, like the Maya and many other civilizations and empires Maybe hundreds if not thousands years later archaeologists in those days will dig up your smartphone and wonder 'how did they make that?' like we now wonder about the pyramids..

I remember that interview with that Russian guy near Chernobyl who had a head from some dear on the wall the head was very radioactive. Reporter asked him: 'Are you not afraid of that radiation coming from that head? He answered 'Its good for your cancer'. :-)

On a sunny day (Tue, 17 May 2022 11:09:08 -0000 (UTC)) it happened RJH snipped-for-privacy@gmx.com wrote in <t5vvok$dni$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

There are no 'passive' fiber optics links. there are send and receive semiconductor based units at each end, and the same for any repeaters.

Typical ignorant journo. How does he know *what* radiation is coming from it? Unless it is gamma, you can ignore it. Unless he eats the head, of course, in which case take care.

Same with polonium-210. Gives off alpha particles which a sheet of paper will stop. Quite safe inside a glass bottle, just don't eat it.

But none in between

In fact if you survive the heat flash and the detonation, you are very unlikely to die of fallout.

There is quite a narrow band between 'death from pother causes and survival in which radiation poisoning occurs

Do you have

Well fundamentally the fall out issue is massively overhyped. The waorld is awash with natural radiation and people wont die in droves from eating mushrooms with xenon sauce.

All very silly and 60s peacenik

If they say a nuke is on the way, switch off your electricity and sit in the largest piece of masonry you can find.

If you are outside the direct blast zone you will survive and so will most of your kit.

Japan never cleaned up Nagasaki or Hiroshima, and people, once the post explosion radiation cases had died relatively quickly, did not die of cancer, much more than they would have anyway.

Remember you have been lied to about almost everything all your life. Nuclear explosions have their limits, but it suited Russians and their agents to build the fear up so the West wouldn't use them. And US oil and gas interests were perfectly happy to ensure nuclear power would not be in competition.

This about sums it up. Each of us endures about 4400 radioactive decays in our body from Potassium-40, each second. Each second, OK? And our bodies, for the most part, cope with that. And that's just one radioisotope, others are available. And this radioactivity in our bodies is not due to fallout from bomb tests or reactors, life has been putting up with it since it began a billyun or so years ago. Life has developed repair mechansims and coping strategies to minimise damage. If it hadn't, then we would be in s*it-creek.

From Winky, about K-40:

K occurs in natural potassium (and thus in some commercial salt substitutes) in sufficient quantity that large bags of those substitutes can be used as a radioactive source for classroom demonstrations. K-40 is the radioisotope with the largest abundance in the body. In healthy animals and people, K-40 represents the largest source of radioactivity, greater even than Carbon-14. In a human body of 70 kg mass, about 4,400 nuclei of K-40 decay per second.

There's a big difference between having one or two nukes go off and having the full scale second strikes let go. That's the bend over scenario. I agree if there's a limited nuclear exchange then most of us have nothing to worry about.

Hello Jan!

Wednesday May 18 2022 16:49, you wrote to snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net:

What with 27 commanders all speaking (mostly) a different language all with attitude.

Like a hole in the head !

Vincent

On a sunny day (17 May 2022 17:46:21 GMT) it happened TimS snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net wrote in snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>:

Right, but fun interview:-) There is this fear of everything nuclear, probably originates from US propaganda for it having the bomb, like their jive 'hide under the table'..

There is a nice group about radiation:

The point about a first strike is that its supposed to take out the second strike capability.

Let's say Putin launches 20 missiles. Insane. he's crossed the line and invited massive retaliation for virtually no gain..

So there is no reason to go with first and second strikes. You launch the lot. But even in that scenario, Putin knows that there will be nuclear equipped submarines lurking, aircraft scrambled and in the air, and a large proportion of land sites will be able to get missiles and antimissiles off before they are wiped out.

But even so it isn't the end of the world. We have had tow 50 megatonne plus volcanic eruptions in the twentieth century, that produced far more dust fallout than even ground based nuclear strikes would, and a 50 megaton atomic test. The test caused far less issues in terms of ash and dust clouds.

My point being two fold, firstly that Natures ability to cause massive explosions far exceeds humanities, and we are all still here. And secondly that atomic explosions kill by vaporization and blast, not by radiation and fallout, primarily.

Finally what are the defence implications for a nation like Russia if its used all its nukes up, and is in total ruins? who will move in instead? Greater China would take the East and the Germans would annex the West.