2010 April Fools Award

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2010 April Fools Award

Postby jon » Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:32 pm

For the amount of intelligent thought and effort that went into this, I'm giving this DX Receiver review the 2010 April Fools Award:
http://fivebelow.squarespace.com/posts/ ... featu.html

You'll have to click on the link to see it all, because it is just too full of graphics, audio and such to be easily reproduced here. But here is how it starts:
New Perseus Software Adds Past and Future Date Setting Features
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 7:58AM

In a bold move designed to distance the Perseus SDR from its competitors, Nico IV3NWV today announced software version 4.1a.

Speaking plainly about the new version at Barcelona's Quantum Radio Physics (QRP) conference, Nico quickly put to rest the rumors surrounding 4.1a. Sorry friends, said Nico. There's nothing paradoxical or mysterious about this version, despite new features which let you listen to broadcasts from the past and future of radio. It's simply an exploit of the electromagnetic properties of Lorentzian traversable wormholes.

Nico explained that although time travel is not yet possible, past and future radio transmissions are easily accessible through the pre-wave blast of special relativity energy that emerges first through the wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges). He said the breakthrough on version 4.1a came in the middle of a balmy Pavia di Udine evening, when he awoke from a dream with this simple formula running through his mind:...
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