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		pjscott on July 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Explodin... Vacuum tubes hold up better than today's little transistors, and there are ways of EMP-protecting things, like putting them in Faraday cages.

mattparlane on July 18, 2012 [–]

Fairy nuff, I thought transistors might have been used in 1957 but I guess not.

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