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3 unusual facts about The Cuckoo's Egg


The Cuckoo's Egg

Stoll recorded the hacker's actions as he sought, and sometimes gained unauthorized access to military bases around the United States, looking for files that contained words such as "nuclear" or "SDI".

With the help of Tymnet, he eventually tracked the intrusion to a call center at MITRE, a defense contractor in McLean, Virginia.

Studying his log book, Stoll saw that the hacker was familiar with VMS, as well as AT&T Unix.


Cooper's ligaments

In Robert L. Forward's novel Dragon's Egg, a character supposes herself to have been subjected to a transient episode of "Reverse Cooper's Droop" when unbeknownst to her small aliens destroy a patch of cancerous tissue in her breast using precisely-focused X-rays.

Femtotechnology

For example, the astrophysicist Frank Drake once speculated about the possibility of self-replicating organisms composed of such nuclear molecules living on the surface of a neutron star, a suggestion taken up in the science fiction novel Dragon's Egg by the physicist Robert Forward.

The Cuckoo's Calling

The Times enlisted the services of a British linguistics expert and Pittsburgh's Duquesne University professor Patrick Juola, whose software programme ran four separate analyses of the novel and other Rowling works.

Ville Haapasalo

In 2003, he was honored of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his role of Veikko in the film The Cuckoo directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin.


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