If anyone ever complains about your ideas being ridiculous, just remember that once a gay guy in England had the idea of giving sand anxiety, and that's how we defeated the Nazis.
Scene: Bletchley Park, interior:
Some Mathematician: some polish guy figured out how the enigma machine works, but it takes too long to test all the possible settings!
Alan Turing, probably high as a kite: WHAT IF THIS ROCK COULD WORRY ABOUT NUMBERS
Scene: Germany (just Germany):
Guy in a Hugo boss uniform: Fuhrer, some twink in Milton Keynes has figured out how to hack your cellphone using the warm tubes out of a radio.
Hitler: mein gott im himmel!
And then the war ended. That's exactly how it happened.
Since some people have been confused about the sand thing and if I mean silicon or glass:

Turing wanted to use silicon chips but because of rationing sand wasn't available until after the war, so he used electron tubes instead.
Originally he couldn't get any vacuum tubes either, so he had to use electromechanical parts.
Eventually he took apart his radio and got the tubes out of there so he could run the system much faster, although he was no longer able to listen to The Archers.
The main reason the war went on for as long as it did was that Turing had to build his first Turing Machine with paper tape, and it took a long while to find a factory that could produce the infinitely long paper tape needed.
Now some people have suggested my recounting of these events may contain minor factual inaccuracies, but I'd like to counter that this thread is at least as accurate as any Hollywood films made about Turing and/or the Enigma code.
The main inaccuracies being that The Archers didn't start airing until 1951 and the most accepted etymology for "twink" puts the first use at 1963.
Other than that, it's all 100% true, other than the German guy speaking English for some reason.
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