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ECL
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0 posted 2003-10-02 01:09 PM


I don't know if this is the right forum, but it's not a poem, and it's not really pose either.

Dave looked over the readout, a grin spreading across his face. "exactly 0.96, I was right!" he thought to himself, alone in his computer room, listening to some pink floyd.

Ride the wave to the sin
the one that was built in
It leads us down a road
that only will allow the good to be told.

He now knew that the plasma envelope can be controlled, to a precise degree neccessary to contain the reaction. Helium was pumped into the plasma using lazer acceleramators. Additionally, neon was also pumped in. When the plasma reached the right temperature, anti-protons were produced. His mind was afire with the new results. If there was away to oscillate the plasma field, maybe even to collapse it and then bring it back in a cylic manor. Then each cycle will regenerate the magnitic flux needed to collapse the neon, and it would increase production by multiple orders of magnitude. Or more...

Did they not know that 10 was the number?
Why can't they count their fingers and toes?
But then that is double what they wanted
but then that is all foretold...

Another 4 months of work, and he had the answer. The frequency of 14.3Ghz produced an oscilating cavity of 1.2uM. This would also cause oscillations with the neon plasma, and result in a complete cycle every 160 pS. With 1e12 neon atoms being converted every cycle, he could theoritically produce a gram every 10 minutes...

If you fly too close to the sun
The moon will come out
and when you experience your first doubt
that is when you will turn and run

Well, the storage challenge wasn't a paticularly challenging one for dave. Using the same method developed to store liquid hydrogen for the latest fuel cells, he was able to synthesisys enough nebium catalyst to hold the 2 kgs of the anti-protons he has made so far. He had enough money to get three production lines up and going. He could reach his goal of 100 units within a year.

A year is such a long time to an ant
and such a short one to the sun
Why is it that we cannot plant?
What is to come...

He set about installing the "judgement day gifts" as he started to call them, in each major city. He would pick out of the way places, ones that would be able to conceal his 10 pound little wonder. The actual device was realtively small, roughly the size of a large milk carton. It had the equivalent explosive force of 80 Megatons of TNT. David had calculated this, but never confirmed it.

The scarecrow is placed before the audience
The curtain is lifted
The oohs and ahhs fill the air
and people are scared

David made a trip to the White House, briefcase in hand. Because of the hightened security, they stopped him as soon as he got off the bus, and asked him if he would mind opening the briefcase. It went as close to plan as he could have hoped.

Two tangents are alive tonight
two knowns in the unkown
which path do you walk?
Is it to the left or right?

The underwater bouy released it's dead weights. It started rushing to the surface, and leaped 5 feet into the air. The trigger fired, and 5e16 joules of energy were released within a second. David had bet that the DVD disks sent to all the stations would get plenty of air time, and he won the bet. Everyone was lined up on New Yorks' shore line to see the fire works. Even at more than 150 miles from shore, the night sky glowed for hours after, and the strong warm breeze that blew off the ocean that night drove it home. The world had changed.

Three sibblings sit on the hill
One says to turn his back on the other two
The second was told to wait for the one true one
The third, she just turned her cheek
Three on a hill, performing for everyone to see

David was led to a conference room, deep inside a bunker. He had been strip searched, and xrayed. The briefcase was taken from him and was probably now being torn apart in a secure area. He had brought 5 CDs with him, containing all the information on how to build the bomb. The info was also released on the net at the same time the New York bomb went off. Of course he didn't tell them that, he didn't want to risk them shutting down the net to try and stop it. Yes, so far all according to plan...

The result was all it wanted
all it really cared for
it wanted to know the reason
we die, for ever more

For the many hours of his interigation, he made it clear he only wanted one thing: for them to release his DVD that he brought with him. It contained an hour of his ramblings, of why he did this, of what he wanted to accomplish by doing this. It wasn't a pretty sight. He just didn't have the flare in making captivating videos. But he didn't care. He wanted people to realize something. Something he found out long ago...

Why? The anwser is in the question.
To think is to travel, to move, to react.
It is in our human nature to think,
to travel, to move, to react.

"World Changing Event" the headline read. Simple, and to the point. Nothing else to say, until the next headline. And there were more, many more. Luckily for them, the line was on David's right, and it shifted to the left.



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This is...really well done.
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