Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 13769
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3/6     NASA has found water on the Moon, and predicts that human colonization
        of the Moon is now feasible.  It was announced at a press conference
        yesterday morning.
        \_ yes, but how much? It didn't sound like much to me.
        \_ It's enough to support 1000 people for 100 years.
           \_ There used to be a lot more, but the secret Nazi moon base on
              the dark side of the moon used up most of it after Hitler
              decided to expand the base to four times its previous size
              back in the 60s.  Damn Nazis.
              \_ I know you think this is funny,but this is nowhere near
              as hilarious as that apollo workstation thread a couple of
              days ago.  my stomach still hurts from that.
                \_ This completes the circle, though.  (Haven't you ever
                   wondered where DomainOS _really_ came from?)
                        \_ DOMAIN=Developed On Many Apollos Inside Nasa
                           \_ That's what they'd _like_ you to think; the
                              acronym is just nationalistic face-saving on the
                              part of the USA.  Just like how Werner Von Braun
                              and the other Germans built up our space
                              program, but "we" did it all . . .
                    \_ You mean the Apollo entry was a lie?
                        \_ Of course not.  No one ever lies in the motd.
                   \_ We know where domain/os came from.  We also know where
                        Windows NT came from.  (Hint:  Does "//machinename"
                        look familiar?  And we're talking years before URL's
                        adopted the syntax from Domain/OS.)
                \_ Or... 10,000 people for 10 years... Not much.
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