Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Welcome to HowStuffShouldWork

Everybody knows http://www.howstuffworks.com. It used to be kinda stupid site for kids once, which would tell you that "a microwave owen uses microwave radiaiton to heat things" instead of "magnetron is a vaccum tube with thin cathode and cylindric anode with cavities in the uniform magnetic field parallel to the axis, ...". However, it is now a much better place (if you have a good popup blocker).

Even though they cannot explain you how color tv works (http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tv10.htm) (In fact, I have searched for it to say "they can even explain you why color CRT TV electron cannon(s) never miss blue dot to hit red instead, although it frequently misses the whole screen by 2 cm" but, unfortunately, they confused all of it). Anyway - howstuffworks is a great site, and I won't tell you about color TV.

The purpose of this is not to explain how things work. Instead, we'll talk about how they should have worked. In other words - let's talk about the world's current problems in all areas technology - communications, transport, vehicles, spaceflight, computer hardware and software industry, etc. I'm going to write about those of my ideas which I don't have enough lifetimes (or other resources) to implement myself. All others go to Private Teramips Ideas Forum :)

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