stackyFACTSThe planes designed to run the world during a nuclear apocalypse purposefully ignore modern touchscreens. They rely on heavily outdated analog dials and mechanical gauges because physical wires are vastly less likely to be completely fried by the massive electromagnetic pulses accompanying armageddon.
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