The Transistor's 60th Birthday

Apple Acolyte sends in a Forbes piece noting the 60th birthday of the transistor on Dec, 16. For the occasion the AP provides the obligatory Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article. From Forbes: "Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world's first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so impossibly bulky, hot and power hungry."

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Oh 1947?

[Anonymous Coward]

Gosh what a coincidence that they invented it in 1947, the same year as the alleged ROSWELL INCIDENT.

They didn't fucking invent that transistor, that shit was recovered alien technology.

I know all you /.'ers are fucking brainwashed by your godless, rationalist educational system so you can't even consider the possibility that - (1) UFO's are a real phenomenon with a non-human intelligence at the wheel, and that (2) we might not really be able to take credit for all our technology but I submit to you that YOU AREN'T AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU ARE.

It just kills me that we have such a poor understanding of our own space, time, and consciousness yet we brazenly declare that "UFO PEEPLES R TEH STOOPID AND CRAZY"

Go ahead, mod me down, we've got to keep the UFO thing a secret or else we're all going to panic, crack open each other's skulls and feast on the goo inside.

Fuckin' brainwashed.