Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?

Re:Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction? by jay_kyburz on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:48AM (#25079685)

Yeah, OK, I know how to wrap copper and spin it around magnets, and get _some_ electricity, but I don't know how to measure or manage the voltage and the current. I don't know how to make an inverter. I don't know how to make a light bulb or a battery (or really anything that "uses" the power). Exiting appliances only have only at most 20 years in them.

With everybody struggling to raise crops and livestock, let along trying to reinvent the light bulb, it would a long slow climb back to civilization.

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Re:Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction? by kortilla on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:58AM (#25079743)

> With everybody struggling to raise crops and livestock, let along trying to reinvent the light bulb, it would a long slow climb back to civilization.

People aren’t going to forget how to trade. The people with that manufacturing and engineering knowledge aren’t going to be busy with livestock. They’ll be trading these valuable goods for food.

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