7th April 2005, 2:41 PM
The reason they were working in HAwaii is because, if you check a map, it's pretty frickin' close to both American and Japan. I mean, midway would be an even better mid point, but um... there are reasons people don't go there...
"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)