Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon

On 07/08/2026 03:27, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 21:39:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 06/08/2026 19:22, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> 'Unobtanium' is a device that exists but you can't buy at the present
>>> time. The Zero is a current example. In the early '80s vendors were
>>> quoting similar lead times of over a year on commodity chips. That, in
>>> part, impacted IBM's PC design.
>>
>> No. Unobtanium is a substance that does NOT exist. But would solve
>> massive problems if it did.
> 
> Once again, I speak American.
Once again, I speak universal usage.
Look it up

"Unobtainium is a humorous engineering and fictional term for a 
hypothetical material that has the ideal, perfect properties for a 
specific application, but is impossible to get or does not actually 
exist. It combines the word "unattainable" with the chemical suffix "-ium

Engineering Jargon:
Aerospace engineers used the term starting in the late 1940s and 1950s 
to joke about missing materials that could withstand extreme conditions 
like high heat or intense stress.

Real-World Scarcity: It is *sometimes* applied to real materials that 
are severely restricted, incredibly expensive, or hard to source.

Fictional Tropes: In storytelling, it describes a rare substance that 
powers key technologies or drives the main plot. "

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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have 
guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Josef Stalin