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| Thread ID: 125368 | 2012-06-22 23:18:00 | Alan Turing's Centenary | tuiruru (12277) | PC World Chat |
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| 1283506 | 2012-06-24 13:45:00 | Have to agree on prefect with one point, you can't rewrite the law. It was an offence at the time and he was convicted. Whether we see it as right or wrong now is irrelevant. Just as caning a child is illegal today, 30 years ago it was most acceptable. Still, I admire his skill. Enjoyed using the google doodle. The celebration is for his genius not his poofterism |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1283507 | 2012-06-24 20:04:00 | You got it right there Cicero Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1283508 | 2012-06-25 01:31:00 | You need to read up when the nuclear bomb was ready for use. The first live test "Trinity" was July 16 1945, Hiroshima 6th August. VE day in Europe had already occurred on 8th May. Do you really think the bomb could have been produced any earlier? Turing was prosecuted while others of all nationalities had major war crimes ignored because they were useful. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1283509 | 2012-06-25 01:47:00 | The first live test "Trinity" was July 16 1945, Hiroshima 6th August. VE day in Europe had already occurred on 8th May. Do you really think the bomb could have been produced any earlier? They didnt have any spare A-bombs anyway.... & firebombing was just as destructive, especially in terms of people killed . No amount of bombing stopped the Euro war , did it . Turing helped save thousands of allied lives well BEFORE 1945 . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1283510 | 2012-06-25 02:19:00 | Having just read Ben Macintyre Double Cross about the D Day spies, Turing's work was able to be used to check that the German high command believed what the spies were sending across and so kept the army in the Pas de Calais waiting for the main attack from the non existent army group supposedly amassing in my home county of Kent directly opposite Calais | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1283511 | 2012-06-25 08:10:00 | They didnt have any spare A-bombs anyway.... & firebombing was just as destructive, especially in terms of people killed . No amount of bombing stopped the Euro war , did it . . The argument was that Turing shortened the war by years. I am pretty sure we the Allies would not have let the war run for years past May 1945 when we could have fried the germans from August on. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1283512 | 2012-06-25 09:49:00 | You need to read up when the nuclear bomb was ready for use. You really do need to brush up on your education. How many of those working on the atomic bomb in the states were Germans? How much longer would the atomic bomb have taken to develope if the war in Europe had dragged on for longer? |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1283513 | 2012-06-25 09:53:00 | He killed himself. There is now some doubt about that and it may have been accidental through inhalation rather than ingestion. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1283514 | 2012-06-25 09:54:00 | You got it right there Cicero Ken He does his best.:D |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1283515 | 2012-06-25 09:56:00 | Having just read Ben Macintyre Double Cross about the D Day spies, Turing's work was able to be used to check that the German high command believed what the spies were sending across and so kept the army in the Pas de Calais waiting for the main attack from the non existent army group supposedly amassing in my home county of Kent directly opposite Calais Agent Zigzag is well worth a read. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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