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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.
 
== In the News ==
 
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File:Klein bottles nesting.jpg|Klein bottle (nonfiction)|[[Klein bottle (nonfiction)|Klein bottle breeding tank]] used by the ENIAC team to suppress four-dimensional bacteriophages.
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Dalton Trumbo]]
* [[Dalton Trumbo]]

Revision as of 15:54, 10 June 2016

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.

In the News

Summary

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

Nonfiction cross-reference