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Much as a top, spinning off-center on its point, will swing slowly around that point instead of tipping over, the spinning protons in the magnetic field would precess, but would not tip and line up without the application of a rotating secondary magnetic field at radio frequencies which would make the feat of lining them up easy.
As the crew of Hot Rod strove to get it into position to fire; and the computer on the wheel strove to precess the wheel to a position where firing would be fatal to the firer, it became a race between giant snails. But already the rim of the big wheel had inched slightly ahead in the race; and the main part of the hub was disappearing behind it.
The Security men were attempting to instruct the computer to precess the wheel back to its original position. In reply, for every figure of any type sent over the keyboard, the Cow sent back a half-yard of confused, rambling figures and would do nothing else. General Elbertson snapped a single command. "Turn the thing off. We'll get to that later."
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