November 30, 2004

Right; next they'll be telling us we'll be able to download porn at home....

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Sure looks like my new iMac...

Whoa. Your very own VHF Home Weather Center, US Navy Submersible Vehicle Radar and Steering set, and Closed Circuit TV Monitor ... all in glorious lo-def hi-grain black and white.

Dang.

Some progress IS forward, isn't it?

The camera-equipped cell phone Northstar got to play with last baseball season can do more stuff than that whole array of vacuum tubes.

On the other hand, that thing's probably EMT-burst proof.

Still looks an awful lot like (part of) the control site under the old SAC headquarters building outside Omaha....

Sorry to be the wet blanket, but that picture is a hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

The computer is actually a "full-scale mock-up of a typical nuclear-powered submarine's maneuvering room in which the ship's engineers control the power plant and electrical and steam systems" and part of an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/news_stories/sub-centen02.html

Yeah -- I wondered about the steering wheel in the middle of it.

I didn't think it was equipped to help you maneuver your house.

Sorry, spoiler, but you're debunking nothing. This was not posted as authentic. Or is the word "parody" lost on you??

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