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[[File:ENIAC_Empty-Noise-Into_Alien-Communication.jpg|thumb|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. | [[File:ENIAC_Empty-Noise-Into_Alien-Communication.jpg|thumb|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 == | == In the News == | ||
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File:Klein bottles nesting.jpg|link=Klein bottle (nonfiction)|[[Klein bottle (nonfiction)|Klein bottle breeding tank]] used by the ENIAC team to suppress four-dimensional bacteriophages. | File:Klein bottles nesting.jpg|link=Klein bottle (nonfiction)|[[Klein bottle (nonfiction)|Klein bottle breeding tank]] used by the ENIAC team to suppress four-dimensional bacteriophages. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Dalton Trumbo]] | * [[Dalton Trumbo]] | ||
Revision as of 20:03, 19 December 2016
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
Wax seal on feeding tube enables Gnotilus to secrete geometry solvent directly into ENIAC.
Klein bottle breeding tank used by the ENIAC team to suppress four-dimensional bacteriophages.