I wonder if we still have the manufacturing capacity to build a project like this anymore.
I wonder if we still have the manufacturing capacity to build a project like this anymore.
We probably do in the short term.
But one of the problems of having cut back so much will be the lack of experienced youngsters to fill the shoes of retiring Boomers.
I've been saying all along: "high tech" manufacturing may be glitzy and glamorous, but it's just icing on the cake. It really can't survive very long by itself without a solid foundation of skills based on more fundamental/mature (but supposedly "boring") manufacturing technologies.