A machine called "Z"
Michael Paterniti
Sunday December 31, 2000
Science 2001
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-------------------------- http://www.observer.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,416412,00.html
Under a ring of water in a sealed chamber in the middle of the New Mexico desert lies the heart of a machine that could change the world...
Another switch is flipped, another mouse clicked. To the piercing sound of an alarm, a countdown in the Marx generators ensues, or rather a count up, in kilovolts, comes in a monotone, almost hollow voice beneath the frantic alarm. The man in the control room on a tinny loudspeaker, the Machine speaking through the human.
'Twenty kV...'
'Thirty kV...'
'Forty kV...'
(To read the entire article, please click on the link provided above.)
Michael Paterniti
Sunday December 31, 2000
Science 2001
__________________________
-------------------------- http://www.observer.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,416412,00.html
Under a ring of water in a sealed chamber in the middle of the New Mexico desert lies the heart of a machine that could change the world...
Another switch is flipped, another mouse clicked. To the piercing sound of an alarm, a countdown in the Marx generators ensues, or rather a count up, in kilovolts, comes in a monotone, almost hollow voice beneath the frantic alarm. The man in the control room on a tinny loudspeaker, the Machine speaking through the human.
'Twenty kV...'
'Thirty kV...'
'Forty kV...'
(To read the entire article, please click on the link provided above.)