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From: nrc@cbnews.ATT.COM (N. Richard Caldwell)
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Subject: Re: Wilhelm Reich
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From article <55953@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, by ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi):
> In article <9004131335.AA01867@gaffa.MIT.EDU> MTARR@WESLEYAN.BITNET writes:
> 
> [Talking about the cloudbuster]
>>Does it look like the machine in the video?
> 
> Not really.  From what I understand, Reich's machine looked simply
> like a bunch of tubes sticking out of the ground.  Not nearly as 
> impressive as Kate's vision. 

The picture I saw of it in a Reich biography showed that it was indeed
a "bunch of tubes" but they weren't just sticking out of the ground,
they were mounted on a base that appeared to allow it to swivel around.
I think that there is a bundle of tubes or rods at the center of
Kate's cloudbuster that  resembled the original pretty closely but all
the big horn-like tubes on the outside are just fantasy.  One might
think of it as being how the machine might look through the eyes of a
child.

>>I do have one question, though: did it *really* make it rain?
> 
> No.

Not only no, but hell no!  :)


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