CD's are mighty shiny. After the holocaust we can trade them as baubles
to the natives.
Or, as one person said:
"When I collect two solar masses of AOL disks, I will use them to detonate
our sun."
I've seen websites dedicated to arts/crafts useing AOL cd's as the main
component. One even made a full-size Christmas tree!
I use dead-burn cd's as coasters, stack them to level a wobbly table.
I think they might make nice reflectors for marking the beginning of a
rural driveway.
You could shave with one as a mirror.
Of course, after a cataclysm we might want to actually READ some of these
disks....
With limited resources, I would guess that a strong magnifier might reveal
the pits for someone to manually transcribe. Then you could go to the
printed RFC's and use an abacus to decode the files and reveal the
contents.
Maybe some selenium, a relay or two, and a voice coil could automate
reading the disk by stamping the 'bits' into a paper tape to be read by
the bank of scribes decoding it.
Or shooting a photo through the cd onto a silver emulsion plate and then
enlarging the prints for easier viewing.
How many scribes does it take to decode a JPEG using the abacus?
In this hypothetical post apocalypse are we talking WaterWorld or are
there lots of spare discretes left working after the EMP/nuclear war,
asteroid, wrath of God hits us?
Rube Goldberg contraptions facinate don't they.
Regards,
Jeff
In <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012121024070.12589-100000_at_lanshark.lanminds.com>, on
12/12/00
at 05:16 PM, "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> said:
>By then, we may resolve the question on this list.
>By then, will MICROS~1 have been broken up?
>By then, will we have a RELIABLE OS?
>BTW, recent experiments were UNsuccessful at starting fire using CDs.
>Therefore, what good will they be?
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