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.

Summary

The Allies built ENIAC to generate disinformation to alien civilizations, in an effort to gather evidence of advanced technologies.

Dalton Trumbo

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.

Fiction cross-reference

• Dalton Trumbo

Nonfiction cross-reference

• ENIAC (nonfiction)