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It seemed perfectly reasonable to me that reversing the battery connections in my Mums Perdio radio would turn it into a transmitter
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I blame Star Trek for that.
Almost every technical problem on that programme could be solved by 'reversing the polarity' or, that other great baffler, 're-modulating the phase'. In spite of that, Star Trek is credited with having inspired numerous people to become real life Boffins who went on to invent genuinely useful things, although it's a wonder any of them survived through to adulthood initially. A bit like all of us here, really.