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rob pike

"Oppenheimer" is very very good and passes surprisingly close to the documented history. I was captivated.

My nerd credentials must quibble though: Those nixie tubes showing the countdown were not invented until 1955 (I know because a dear friend of mine, David Hagelbarger, invented them) and also the spoken countdown is plausibly credited to early broadcasts of rocket launches.

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wakest ⁂

@robpike this caught my interest and went to search David Hagelbarger and see that they dont have a wikipedia page wich seems like quite a shame. I dont see any references to their work on Nixie tubes either. So interesting how many people fall though the cracks of history like that.

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