At the dawn of nuclear technology

After the test data from them were killed in the punch card and the miracle of technology happily winking lamps kilograms swallowed these same cards, the heating of the thinking process waste space. And here it is, the long-awaited result- columns of figures in hand. Americans are much proud of his work, if pride was lighter than air, shoals of American physicists have been circulating in the stratosphere. As time passed, the secret data ceased to be such, but remained proud of the result and the Americans published their data. Following them have published details of their testing our scientists. In anticipation that the Soviets would be in deep anus compared to them, the Americans began to check the data. And it turned out that the Soviet in the second sign for sure! Uncle Kondraty widened the Americans their strong arms. Scary thoughts were in their Soviet golovah- if data are accurate, they have been at the time, it was not just a supercomputer and super-duper computer, and state of the art in general, is not an American couple. Well, just the sort of thing the Americans on all cylinders outfitted delegation to exchange experiences in the Soviet Union. Arriving to the Soviet colleagues they took the bull by the roga- and not show you that glorious device on which you calculated the data.
Yes, here it is in front of you.
Soviet colleague pointed to the machine, the next of kin of the Iron Feleksa (mechanical adding machine).
-A-Ah, sekretnost- thought amerikantsy- pretend. We know you!
-Can You give us will demonstrate the equipment with which you have worked in the field? - I asked hopefully if they are. The assistant left, returned with a brick, which put the scientists. This simple object plunged Americans into a hypnotic trance. Now, if there lay a brick made of printed circuit boards and semiconductors, while everything was clear, but it is common silicate brick, just numbered. Americans became obvious Russian scoff at them and not just mock and most sophisticated way ...
From the state of prostration began to withdraw their story about their own tests. It turned out, the bricks are numbered and have placed radially from the center. After the explosion, the soldiers died out a tape measure distance by which each individual brick to fall, and then a group of employees for a simple physical formulas determined desired pressure. Glory to the Soviet Science!

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