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@isaackuo @cainmark @glyph

However, non computer programmers were not just unaware that ELIZA was just a pathetic couple of pages of code, they had no feelings for how many pages of code was enormous or miniscule. All they saw was what ELIZA outputed.

@DenOfEarth @isaackuo @glyph

Yes, back in the 1960s the ELIZA effect was a rude surprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

@glyph

Needless to say, if somebody time traveled back to the 1950s and tried to explain this to the people back then, they would have thought you were crazy...

@StefanEJones @FredKiesche

It seems to me if the supernova is bright enough to shine through clouds, chances are it is bright enough to shine through your body...

Scifi Mastodon, please come to my aid! I am trying to remember the name of a scifi novel.

The protagonist is a teenager boy, whose father is a chief executive at NASA.
A villainous woman is staging a coup to take over the US.
The father wants to get his son to safety. At midnight he takes his son to NASA's electromagnetic launcher, sending him to the small lunar colony.

Ring any bells?

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It has been answered by https://spacey.space/@ScriptJoy@mastodon.online . It was ‘Apollo’s Outcasts’ by Allen Steele