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DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the big-envelopes dept.

holy_calamity writes "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was founded in 1958 after the Soviets shocked the world by launching Sputnik. New Scientist recounts the history of the agency charged with protecting the US from 'technological surprise' and lists some of its most spectacular successes and failures."

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  1. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... by turgid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They're not homophones if you're Scottish. We still pronounce the "h."

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  2. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... by maxume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scottish huh. Is that like Irish?

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  3. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... by turgid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It could be worse.

    If you are from Essex, Kent or London, "think" and "fink" are homophones in addition to weather and whether (although they'd replace the internal "th" with "vv"). The "er" would become "a".

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  4. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... by owlnation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scottish huh. Is that like Irish?
    No. Not really, though some seem misguidedly to think so. The Irish are like Glaswegians (or the Glasgow conurbation -- about a 5th of the population), because much of Glaswegian ancestry is Irish. The rest of the inhabitants of Scotland aren't really much like the Irish at all.
  5. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... by maxume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Glasgow huh. Is that like Dublin?

    (So, note that I could probably go on doing this...)

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