[HN Gopher] A brief history of liquid computers (2019)
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       A brief history of liquid computers (2019)
        
       Author : jsnell
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-02-26 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | rland wrote:
       | _> They do not need an electricity or any other artificial power
       | source and can work just under gravity. This makes liquid
       | computers invincible to electro-magnetic fields and fault
       | tolerant (this is why some components from fluidic logic devices
       | from the 1960s are still used in nuclear reactor control systems
       | [187-189] and fighter jets [190-192])._
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       | This was interesting. I really thought these things were just a
       | relic.
        
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