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Oppenheimer's the Death Chambers

The disc encodes not only the text of his interview, but also a crude encoding of the original film. If you spin the disc at a certain rate and watch the images through a microscope under a light flickering at 24 times per second, the images will fuse into a grainy scene. Oppenheimer speaks to the camera without looking at it, perhaps trying to shape how those who come after will see him. The verse from the Bhagavad Gita is Chapter 11, Verse 32, a speech from Lord Krsna. An alternate translation of the full verse is more illuminating.

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