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Comment Re:An Old Idea Resurrected - Again (Score 2) 82

Don' forget Forward's Flight of the Dragonfly. Bonus: about half the novel is a technical addendum of the proposed starship design.

Robert L Forward had the added bonus of being a bona fide physicist and engineer. He didn't goof around, he proposed a terawatt laser system to propel the ship ... with a return stage.

Comment Re:great photowork there (Score 3, Informative) 93

My interpretation is as follows. The equipment shown is stuff that could have existed in the 1960s. In the West, that's pretty much how machines looked like in the 60s. The #1 company that made and still makes these machines is Kulicke & Soffa.

http://www.kns.com/en-us/Pages...

China basically scoured North America for all the old machines they could find. Ribbon machines that make incandescent lightbulbs. Pick and place machines. Board plating shops. Wire and ball bonders.

All this stuff that used to the define the West's technological prowess. K&S is now based in Singapore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh, and if you want to see something fast and automatic, look up chip shooter on youtube...

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