Package Details: abstracts 3.2-5

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First Submitted: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)

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delmar commented on 2025-12-16 08:36 (UTC)

...At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists projected that computer speeds as high as 30 million floating-point calculations per second (megaflops) would be needed for the Armys ballistic missile defense system. Many computer experts -- including a National Academy of Sciences panel -- said achieving such speeds, even using multiple processors, was impossible. Today, new generation supercomputers operate at billions of operations per second (gigaflops). -- Aviation Week & Space Technology, May 9, 1988, "Washington Roundup", pg 13

homicide commented on 2025-12-15 18:44 (UTC)

"One of the problems Ive always had with propaganda pamphlets is that theyre real boring to look at. Theyre just badly designed. People from the left often are very well-intended, but they never had time to take basic design classes, you know?" -- Art Spiegelman

mettle commented on 2025-12-13 16:19 (UTC)

On Krats main screen appeared the holo image of a man, and several dolphins. From the mans shape, Krat could tell it was a female, probably their leader. "...stupid creatures unworthy of the name `sophonts. Foolish, pre-sentient upspring of errant masters. We slip away from all your armed might, laughing at your clumsiness! We slip away as we always will, you pathetic creatures. And now that we have a real head start, youll never catch us! What better proof that the Progenitors favor not you, but us! What better proof..." The taunt went on. Krat listened, enraged, yet at the same time savoring the artistry of it. These men are better than Id thought. Their insults are wordy and overblown, but they have talent. They deserve honorable, slow deaths. -- David Brin, Startide Rising