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Re: Really awful TV news report on virus (from 1988)


From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:57:44 -0400

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:09:06 -0700, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said:

I believe the author was quite
upset he messed things up like he did.

Bob Jr's statement that he intended it to be more limited seems to ring true, but it
was definitely supposed to be a worm.

He got an 'if' statement backward - instead of a 1 in 9 chance of it hitting a potential
target, there was an 8 in 9 chance.

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