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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3556626, member: 77814&quot;]not like libraries and national archives don&#039;t exist and still have the paper versions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question is, does one need *everything* that&#039;s ever been cataloged up to today&#039;s specifications?</p><p>Or simply the initial basic requirements to get stuff done?</p><p><br /></p><p>Are we going to forgot forever how to make concrete ?</p><p>Is experience &amp; knowledge going to be lost forever?</p><p>or will we have to reinvent fire ?</p><p>the &quot;pyramid&quot; is as large as you want to speculate it to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just because you use electronic copies of books doesn&#039;t mean a paper copy does not exists somewhere, anywhere; or maybe someone else printed it out?</p><p><br /></p><p>I continually get the Oracle electronic books when I take classes.&nbsp; But I also order a paper version for our organization for other people to use a reference because I&#039;m not going to give them my password for the electronic version.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My house and stuff are all grounded at two locations.&nbsp; But we were talking about EMP, not a lighting strike.&nbsp; As a lighting strike on the solar panel may just melt the small cables that go from the panel to the MPPT controller.&nbsp; of course it may start a fire, irregardless if it hit the solar panel which is not on the roof (there&#039;s flag poles, light poles, power poles in close vicinity which are better targets too).&nbsp; And since a lighting strike won&#039;t disable the world&#039;s internet and such, I&#039;d just order another one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, at least my cash won&#039;t be affected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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