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From: orion@WPI.WPI.EDU (Kenneth G Descoteaux)
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Subject: Re: Wilhelm Reich
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Date: 14 Apr 90 09:55:45 GMT
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In article <9004131335.AA01867@gaffa.MIT.EDU> MTARR@WESLEYAN.BITNET writes:

>Does it look like the machine in the video?

Not really. In the BW photo, the 'buster is mounted on what looks like a
3'x3'x3' platform. The 'buster appears to have some kind of swivel mounting.
The 'buster has a 6' tall by 2' wide wooden frame-like construct at the top
of which there are 2 rows of pipes around 6" apart. Each row contains 5 pipes
set maybe 4" apart. Each of the pipes is actually made of 3 lengths of 6' or 8'
metal piping (the kind with male threads on one end and a flange at the other).
The pipes look like 3"-4" diameter pipes.  It looks like something Reich had
his handyman throw together in the garage (which is essentially what happened).
Very 'raw'. Kind of like an Anti-Aircraft gun. 
The biggest difference is that Reich's Cloudbuster had cables connecting each 
pipe to a *nearby lake or stream* to act as an orgone energy 'ground'.  
KaTe probably felt that her Cloudbuster looked more impressive at the top of 
prominence rather than near a pond and ignored this detail (artistic freedom).

> did it *really* make it rain?

_Yankee_ talked to the blueberry farmer (Osmon Merrill or Ellsworth Maine)
who paid $1000 for Reich's rain. He was satisfied that Reich *did* make it 
rain. (He paid only after 1/2" of rain fell) 
The only way to be sure would be to build your own...

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>Meredith Tarr                   "Looking for a moment that'll never happen
>mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu         Living in tha gap between past and future"
>Wesleyan University                                             -KT
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Ken Descoteaux
orion@wpi.wpi.edu
Ken Descoteaux
orion@wpi.wpi.edu