From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:08:07 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
   (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:   
      
   >john larkin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:22:04 -0000 (UTC), "Don"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >john larkin wrote:   
   >> >> Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >> >>> john larkin wrote:   
   >> >>>>   
   >> >>>>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-china-built-manhattan-project   
   >> >>>>-141758929.html   
   >> >>>>   
   >> >>>>Lots of ebay stuff, I suspect.   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>Then once they're in a position to mass produce these chips, they'll   
   >> >>>sell them or give them away to 'less responsible' countries. We need   
   >> >>>to act fast; there's still just about enough time to nuke 'em.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Imagine making 3 nm chips on a tofu dreg machine.   
   >> >   
   >> >    "Early on in World War II, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring,   
   >> >    one of Adolf Hitler's top lieutenants, said that Americans   
   >> >    could only make refrigerators and razor blades-they would   
   >> >    never be able to produce the military equipment and   
   >> >    supplies necessary to defeat Nazi Germany."   
   >> >   
   >> >       
   >> >   
   >> >    It is difficult to get a man to understand something when   
   >> >    his salary depends on his not understanding it.   
   >> >    - Upton Sinclair   
   >>   
   >> At one point, Ford's Willow Run plant was finishing a B24 bomber every   
   >> hour.   
   >   
   >Mass production is fine for a stable product but in wartime the   
   >requirements were changing so rapidly that the assembled aeroplanes had   
   >to be dispersed to thousands of small workshops to have modifications   
   >and extra items fitted.  I hope the US still has workshops like that   
   >because the UK certainly doesn't.   
      
   Bits of the Mosquito were built in wood shops all over England. Cool   
   plane.   
      
      
   John Larkin   
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