Return of the Vacuum Tube

sciencehabit writes "Peer inside an antique radio and you'll find what look like small light bulbs. They're actually vacuum tubes — the predecessors of the silicon transistor. Vacuum tubes went the way of the dinosaurs in the 1960s, but researchers have now brought them back to life, creating a nano-sized version that's faster and hardier than the transistor (abstract). It's even able to survive the harsh radiation of outer space."

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sciencehabit writes

"Peer inside an antique radio and you'll find what look like small light bulbs. They're actually vacuum tubes — the predecessors of the silicon transistor.

Thanks for talking to us like we're a bunch of fucking Luddite ignoramuses. I guess we are, compared to you, since you have a "science habit," and we're just a pack of morons, amirite?

Vacuum tubes went the way of the dinosaurs in the 1960s [...]

Wrong. If you're going to be act like a goddamn know-it-all, at least get your facts straight.