d. Kurt Neumann (1957)
When a huge asteroid crashes into
the ocean, a crack scientific team are called out to investigate. What they don’t
know, however, is that the asteroid is actually a UFO, and that the director of
their scientific laboratory has been taken over by aliens, a race of people who
have expended their own resources and are now travelling the universe seeing
what they can steal from other planets. The aliens live by consuming energy:
electrical, atomic, they’re not bothered, they just need lots of it and they
don’t care where and how they get it.
To this end, they unleash an
enormous, incredible machine onto the world, tall, black, metal, like a
modernist sculpture of two water cisterns welded together. When the aliens are
hungry, Kronos (as it is dubbed by one of the scientists – he knows his
mythology, but can’t spell) rises up on hydraulic metal legs and more or less
pogoes over to the next available power station and sucks it dry, crushing screaming
peasants in his path.
Can it be stopped? Well, yeah. For Dr Who fans, the solution is so obvious it’s amazing it takes the scientists and their computer SUSIE (Synchro Unifying Sinometric Integrating Equitensor) so long to come up with it: they reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
Can it be stopped? Well, yeah. For Dr Who fans, the solution is so obvious it’s amazing it takes the scientists and their computer SUSIE (Synchro Unifying Sinometric Integrating Equitensor) so long to come up with it: they reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
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