I worked as a webmonkey intern with these guys back in the late nineties. When they "shoot" the machine it shook the ground for a hundred yards around, which th

I worked as a webmonkey intern with these guys back in the late nineties. When they "shoot" the machine it shook the ground for a hundred yards around, which they neglected to tell me during my first week. I had just gone through radiation training and I'm standing in the room next to the giant warehouse that housed the thing when there's a huge boom and the ground shakes. Nobody else batted an eye so I played it cool but great googly moogly that was scary. And that was before they add a great honking laser that comes over from the next building and zaps the core of the machine. A lot of those guys were stereotypical crazed geniuses, it's fun to see their work carrying forward.