this method is used mostly because of its cheap cost. we were thrown into the public eye at a young age and gratefully had each other at a confusing time. the opera is set in a near future, when "the big sleep" has caused the world to freeze into an ice desert. the road is about  long and  wide. when it was activated, the cube would shake and bounce around the table in a random manner, potentially knocking over the cylinders in the process. air force personnel left in the 1970s after the base was closed. 