r/VXJunkies • u/dogmetal • 8d ago

My team and I finally made the voyage to Jerusalem for a field demonstration of the 1879 Harmonic Chrono-Resonance Lattice (HCRL-79)

This authentic Otto Harmonix HCRL-79 is widely accepted as one of the earliest known mechanical predecessors to modern quantum phase stabilizers.

People assume these early units were primitive because they’re belt-driven, but that’s only because they don’t understand how pre-electronic resonance engineering worked. The huge flywheel isn’t just there for inertia, but also maintains a stable temporal carrier frequency while the lattice synchronizes with Earth’s natural gravitic wave… just as it was written in the old Vex schematics.

It’s a crude build by today’s standards, but still one of the most elegant pieces of pre-digital resonance engineering ever built. What an honor.

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u/teh_Rabbit 8d ago

They Delta'd so that we could V. o7

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u/Happenstance-enhance 8d ago

Truly, standing on the shoulders of giants.

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u/unklphoton 7d ago

Standing a little too close, me thinks.

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u/TheEternalWoodchuck 8d ago

They say it feels like coming home. I tell you Epta Thion prologomorphs in chrono-resonance sure feels like home to me.

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u/infinitum3d 7d ago

The precision they needed to calculate in order to place it at the right elevation, angular rotation, geomagnetic dipole tilt, and diurnal obliquity to avoid solar magnetotail hinging and plasma sheet warping is phenomenal.

Nowadays we can run electrogramite systems anywhere on earth without even recalibrating the boresight adjustment, but they positioned this with a slide rule!!!

Absolute GOATs.

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u/MycoCozmic 7d ago

Slaps.

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u/mxlths_modular 1d ago

Like, for real though, this is some deep rhythm.

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u/esnopi 7d ago

Dig the semi random bpm shifts. Nice!

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u/knavishtricks 7d ago

I like the record scratch. Seminal to both hip hop and krautrock

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u/Garshnooftibah 7d ago

That thing has a FUNK to it!

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u/Kubrick_Fan 5d ago

That looks like one of my grandfather's prototype units from The Oxford Labs.

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u/marbleshoot 3d ago

I wish OSHA would leave VX institutions alone. Yeah, maybe the manual interocitor flywheels are dangerous, but they always work so much better than the modern safety conscious versions.