Schizo Tech Explanations, #1 · 1:34pm Aug 18th, 2016
In today's explanation of some of the higher-end stuff seen in Equestria's Schizo Tech, specifically electronics...
Consider, ye all, just how much easier it is to build semiconductor-based devices when you can place a special order with your friendly local rock farmers to grow you some utterly flawless pre-doped monocrystalline silicon wafers to order, thus short-circuiting the inconvenient first stage of the manufacturing process and that tedious mucking about with Our Friend, Hydrofluoric Acid.
(In tomorrow's show, we explain how the wafers are etched by exquisitely careful watchmaker unicorns with OCPD... the small number of which is probably why there aren't a lot more electronic devices around.)
((Which, yes, does imply that around about the time someone figures out how to bypass the need for said ECWU/OCPD and thus enables mass production, the Pie family will need to build several new silos to keep all the bits in...))
Today in things I hadn't thought of!
Then again, it does make a lot of sense, that it does.
My only complaint is that I didn't think of that first. Other than that, having Your Friendly Neighborhood Rock Farmer do all that annoying pre-sorting without going through things like blast furnaces, heavy metal poisoning, and similar processing just makes so much sense.
And that's not their only trick, either. Leave a lump of iron with a skilled petriculturist and come back to see that it's become a rare-earth magnet. Or start with calcium oxide and end with a high-temperature superconductor.
Or feel free to insert your own materials-scientist's-fantasy here.
(I know I am)
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