not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

[Richmond Mathewson]

"magical unicorns crapped the world into existence."

But they did: where have you been recently?

Just as LiveCode 8.1.6 just spontaneously appeared without

Homo Africanus (HyperCard), Home Erectus (Metacard) and
a lot of subsequent depilation.

Richmond.

On 10/3/17 10:06 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> Well then the REAL miracle to the moon launch is how Nasa either deceived the thousands of people who worked on the project, and keeps them deceived to this day, or else were able to keep all those thousands of people from talking or writing a book.
>
> You see, conspiracies must by nature be extremely limited in participation and scope, otherwise it becomes compromised pretty quickly. Even the CIA doesn't expect to keep secrets forever. But if you don't think about all the individual people that have to spend their entire lives keeping a lie secret, and instead imagine this single minded boogie man called "the government" then you don't have to be bothered about that glaring miscalculation.
>
> Believing that all those workers were "in on it" or else massively deceived during the whole process is so much more incredibly fantastic, that I would really rather believe that magical unicorns crapped the world into existence.
>   
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Oct 3, 2017, at 07:31 , Lagi Pittas via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyway I'm with Richard Feynman so  "I don't care what other people think"
>> I'm 99.999999% certain we didn't go yo the moon- you can only be 100% sure
>> that you exist. I only came to this conclusion in the 90's even though the
>> evidence was overwhelming then, but it keeps piling up. This is coming from
>> someone who remembers EXACTLY where he was and what he was eating and
>> drinking when Neil Armstrong was getting his lines wrong. It was Milk  and
>> a Blue Riband biscuit. It took me a LOOOooong time to acknowledge I had
>> been lied to but sometimes you have to admit it.
>
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