ENIAC (SETI)

ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") station, broadcasting noise into space, in hopes of deceiving extraterrestrial intelligences into revealing military technologies.

ENIAC ( from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War.

The Allies built ENIAC to generate disinformation to alien civilizations, in an effort to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies.

Dalton Trumbo discovered the source code for ENIAC, decades after the war. Trumbo published a best-selling analysis of the source, along with much of the source code itself. His subsequent disappearance has lead to numerous conspiracy theories.

In the News

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  1943: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

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  Klein bottle breeding tank used by the ENIAC team to suppress four-dimensional bacteriophages.

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  US Army uses ENIAC for hydrogen bomb research.

Fiction cross-reference

• Alice Beta Paragliding
• Dalton Trumbo
• Gnotilus

Nonfiction cross-reference

• ENIAC (nonfiction)

External links:

• Greetings, E.T. (PleaseDon’t Murder Us.) by STEVEN JOHNSON, JUNE 28, 2017 @ New York Times