Atoms for peace! Electrickery too cheap to meter! Atomic powered aircraft!

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NickFitz replied

2 February 2016, 10:38
The "theme structure" is still there at LA International: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@33.94...7i13312!8i6656
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alreadypacked replied

2 February 2016, 09:52
It's ok, they found another solution!

Woman who cant help putting on weight is free energy machine
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WTFH replied

2 February 2016, 09:29
Originally posted by VectraMan View Post

Shall we play a game?

Edit: Forum won't let me do that in caps! Argh!

Yes, let's play Global Thermonuclear War
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VectraMan replied

2 February 2016, 09:26
Shall we play a game?

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zeitghost started a topic Atoms for peace! Electrickery too cheap to meter! Atomic powered aircraft!

2 February 2016, 09:15
Atoms for peace! Electrickery too cheap to meter! Atomic powered aircraft!

There's some lovely insanity in this little clip from The New Scientist of 30th March 1961.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zfzhCoOHurwC&pg=PA814&lpg=PA814&dq=gecom+ "general+compiler"&source=bl&ots=Ie9DIahUEa&sig=vd nVkt2UBL1jFKgb4cxdRiJ5TVE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB 6c-y3NjKAhUHXhQKHUXmAAUQ6AEIJTAD#v=onepage&q=gecom%20 %22general%20compiler%22&f=false

What led me to that page was the article on the GECOM General Compiler, which apparently translates ordinary English into computer program instructions.

There's a lot of interesting history in that copy of NS.

It belonged to a Mr Ainsworth according to the back cover.

The beryllium moderated reactor on the same page as the GECOM compiler never went critical.

And I'd assume that the nuclear turbojet is mouldering away in a disposal site somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J87

Dear me.

Here's the manual for GECOM II:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stut...e%20Manual.pdf

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