From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Bill Sloman  wrote:   
      
   > On 26/12/2025 7:45 am, john larkin wrote:   
   > > 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-m   
   nhattan-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.   
   >   
   > Pity about the glue. In tropical climates fungi liked to eat it, and   
   > some Mosquito's fell apart in midflight. The official story was that the   
   > wings hadn't been properly glued together in the first case.   
      
   One of my colleagues was a chemist who had developed the epoxy glues   
   used in aircraft towards the end of WWII.   
      
      
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