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Revision as of 08:05, 1 July 2017
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
1943: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.
Klein bottle breeding tank used by the ENIAC team to suppress four-dimensional bacteriophages.
US Army uses ENIAC for hydrogen bomb research.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
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- Greetings, E.T. (PleaseDon’t Murder Us.) by STEVEN JOHNSON, JUNE 28, 2017 @ New York Times