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Comic #5148

1 Spanners: All right! We can manipulate electrical signals to retro-actuate the ion trap chamber of the mass spectrometer.
2 Spanners: Then if we bypass the vacuum pump it will increase neutron flux to the hyperdrive, and we can get out of here.
3 Iki Piki: Yeah, one thing about using the mass spectrometer like this...
3 Spanners: Yes?
4 Iki Piki: I’m looking at it on the CCTV, and it looks like a cardboard box with a dial reading “helium-5” painted on the side.

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In hindsight, I should have actually got a cardboard box, painted a dial reading "helium-5" on the side, photographed it, and composited it into the screen on the control panel.

No, wait, that's too easy. I should have got an actual CCTV system and wired it to a micro-display on the LEGO control panel so it could display a real live image of the cardboard box...

Sometimes I really feel like I'm just taking the easy option.

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