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I don't understand what "moisture vaporators" in that article refers to.



A moisture vaporator, also known as a vapor spire, was a device used on moisture farms to capture water from the atmosphere. Though stationary, they included programming that used a binary language to communicate with other equipment. Author employs moisture vaporators as tremendously clever reference to a notorious feature film and modern mythology.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUH2_n8jE70&t=0m30s


Thank you for the explanation.


I always think of moisture vaporators when thinking about binary machine code.




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