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From: Damien Thorn Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 07:12:20 -0800 Subject: Previous Popular Mechanics Stupidity |
"Where a calculator on the Eniac is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and
perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons"
- Popular Mechanics
March, 1949
The above quote proves that articles about the relocation of Area 51 aren't
the only stupid predictions to have appeared in Popular Mechanics. Although
slightly off-topic, I was amused to find that this quote had been deemed the
"Quote of the Century (So Far)" by Information Week magazine
(http://www.informationweek.com) in their January 6, 1997 issue.
We'll be covering the PopMech blunder in one of the summer issues of Nuts &
Volts Magazine (http://www.nutsvolts.com), and anyone who knows exactly
where the author of the PopMech article took his photo, please contact me at
damien@nutsvolts.com so I can get photos of the same gate.
Shortly after the article appeared I headed out on a photo mission, and as I
rounded the last bend in Groom Lake road and saw the same signs that have
always been there, I actually felt badly for PopMech's Mr. Wilson. If I had
made a blunder of such magnitude in print, I'd probably become a hermit and
go into hiding <g>!
Damien Thorn
FROM THE MODERATOR:
I think this is the location of the gate photo in Popular Mechanics:
Turn off NV-375 at milepoint 34.6 ("Groom Lake Road"). Go 5.1 miles
and turn left ("South Tikaboo Road"), drive 7.3 miles south until you
reach the gate. I think that's the one. (It is a gate to Range 61
in the Nellis bombing range, not Area 51.) -GC
Ufomind Index: Green River Launch Complex "Area 6413"
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