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The debunking, for those not immediately inclined to follow the link:

> “...we had not set any weapon or projectile types, so what the kangaroos fired at us was in fact the default object for the simulation, which happened to be large multicoloured beachballs.”


Yeah, this would be the one I guess.

The lecture in question took place in late '94 or early '95, in the UK -- so four or five years before that telling.




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