| ▲ | dang 11 hours ago | |||||||
Not Mark Twain, but (believe it or not) Dolton Edwards in Astounding Science Fiction, Sept 1946. "Dolton" was an amusing pseudonym. See this thread from a few years ago: | ||||||||
| ▲ | heikkilevanto 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Some (un?)reliable sources on the Internet claim that it was actually written by a man named M.J. Shields and published as a letter to The Economist in the 1940s | ||||||||
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