Before you is the reason the human race will never colonize another planet.

This is a screen hinge from a Sony Vaio laptop. Notice anything disturbing about such a load-bearing part?

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Here’s how I catalog my stock of leaded resistors.  Each value has a card, and each card has ten resistors.  A plastic bag holds the excess stock of the more common values.

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This is a picture of the result of using compact fluorescent light bulbs in my house for 13 years.  Every single one of these bulbs is either dead or defective.  And this isn’t all there is- through the years, some missed the collection box and went out with the trash.

There are some fluorescent bulbs sprinkled around the house that have outlasted their brethren- notably the one in a recessed fixture above the shower, which has been faithfully illuminating its domain a few minutes each day for over 7 years now.

LEDs had better have a longer life expectancy, especially at the premium prices they’re charging.