[Ed.: At least that is what the little voices tell me when I dance.]
But this is more like it - no BB guns to be seen anywhere in this story:
The vast machine, which covers the area of five football pitches, generates intense light beams to probe matter down to the molecular and atomic scale. The South Oxfordshire-based facility will be used by many fields, including medicine and environmental science. Researchers have now commenced their experiments at its "beamline" stations.Secret. Deathray. Factory.
It's not like you can place a big sign above that place that actually says "Acme Deathray Co." And what better way to hide it than hide it out in the open. Synchrotron my arse. For years and years all you see are eggheads in lab coats walking around with clipboards and then, one day, a door pops open and out pours the robot army.
Comments
gorthos - February 6, 2007 9:49 am
I for one welcome our new robot overlords
Alan - February 6, 2007 10:30 am
You would. And when that day comes who do you think will be the first up against the wall? Those who they didn't even need to fight.
TO THE SCYTHES AND SICKLES, I SAY!!!
Gordo - February 6, 2007 10:42 am
Gorthos, that's my line!
Let's not forget that we have one of our own out in Regina: the Canadian Light Source. It even has an LCARS interface
Alan - February 6, 2007 10:50 am
See! These facilities are dispersed globally according to a mathematical formula which only makes sense to robots and their egghead underlings. Remember - clipboards are like passports. I can't say more.
cm - February 6, 2007 11:36 am
Man, I knew I shoulda studied science.
Gordo - February 6, 2007 11:39 am
Actually, I just read a chapter on Physics in the 50's in A Short History of Nearly Everything and there was some debate in the physical community when the first super collider was being built. There was a significant number of people who feared that it might create a black hole when one flicked the switch.
lance - February 6, 2007 11:45 am
Gordo, the synchrotron is in S'toon, not Regina.
Cheers,
lance
Gordo - February 6, 2007 1:59 pm
Whoops. My bad.
gorthos - February 6, 2007 11:44 pm
What is funny is that were it not for a very very very bad decision made by myself for purely stupid social reasons (as I keep telling my boys, women should be ignored till you finish university), I had designs at being a tech a CERN and had a decent chance at doing so.. argh..