I often wonder how long it would take humanity to reinvent the processes required to make an integrated circuit using silicon, from what they could scour from remaining instructions and knowing it had been done before.
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My 12 year old watched a video on chip manufacturing last week. It was animated. I told him they Couldnt just film it with people because we don't actually make them. Inside the "factories" are stargate portals to our alien overlords' warehouses.
I'm not sure if I was fucking with him or not.
I was lucky to have seen a chip manufacturing clean room in RL with real people working in it. But it is still mind blowing that we were all stumbling around in the dark with not so much as electric lights in common residential usage until the 1880’s.