I always encourage Scouts to play the "what if" game:  when packing for a trip,  planning an Eagle project, waking your dog....   Like BP when he was asked, "prepared for what?"  and he responded, "why, for any old thing...." I recently watched a fascinating documentary film from about 1922 that showed how the Phiilips Company of Holland made light bulbs, radios,  radio vacuum tubes ("Fessenden valves"), loud speakers (Bakelite !), phonographs....   and it struck me, reading thru this threa