Quote: SlagA @ July 22 2009, 12:00 PM BST"Those 1000s of people who built the computers, wrote the programmers and designed the systems. Were utterly fooled for days at a time?"
Yes but computer engineers are building a computer. They're not going to get a visit from top brass who'll explain the computer is just part of an elaborate hoax? Why would the grunts need to know everything about a conspiracy to fulfil a small role? Is what a conspiracist would ask.
However, mine was a rhetorical question.
Sorry, I shall stop asking questions.
They weren't grunts they were inspired, brilliant and desperate to work for NASA. NASA was built from scratch I doubt you'd find any grunts there.
If you look at Bletchley Park on the basis of a handful of possible data they could at times work out who the actual German operators were. People don't just follow orders, we're not machines.