Ronn Blankenship wrote: > Researchers in the control room next to the apparatus felt > the floor tremble and heard explosions from the next room, > Kyodo news agency said.
> As a result of the accident, the Education ministry official > said, more than half the sensors appear to have been damaged. > "It's very hard to estimate the cost or how long it will > take before we can use the facility again," he added. > "All the damaged sensors will have to be remade and > replaced. It could well cost around two billion yen." > He said that while investigations into the accident had > just begun, it did not initially appear to be due to > operator error. Did a quantum-computing Neandertal from a parallel universe appear in the tank, causing the accident? ;-) (See this month's Analog.) ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Startide: Steve Sloan's Pages ================> http://www.sloan3d.com Brin-L list pages ........................... Chmeee's POV-Ray Objects 3D and Drawing Galleries ....................... Science fiction scans Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links ................ Software
