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I tend to think there is a really good chance all the "its aliens" phenomena are natural phenomena that we are hundreds of years away from even having the tools to study. Probably like early humans trying to guess what the sun is made of.
I think you just did the thing, but with his comment
It kinda seems like we've taken the best part of arduino (programming environment) and replaced it with the worst part of PLCs (IEC 61131). In turn we have traded the reliability of PLC hardware and compatibility with industrial sensors with hardware that has none of that.
We have actually been getting away from proprietary PLC's just so we can get away from IEC 61131. Its taken a few years but we are about there.
i too like to go to other countries and spend my time documenting how much better i am than them
this caused some small heart attacks for us this morning