17th March 2007, 6:03 PM
Certainly it's not beyond his ever reaching grasp. Indeed, the major global and political shifts of the past few years have all been a grand orchastration of Weltall for the sole purpose of a killer April Fool's joke in 2 years.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)