For the dog that chases its tail will be dizzy
Dear George Clinton,
I have a question about your Atomic Dog: how do you keep it cool? When I was a child I visited the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in Burlington, Kansas. The apparatus they had to cool it consumed several buildings. You accomplish the same thing in a space smaller than that of a dog, and that’s pretty amazing.
According to my understanding of things, large volumes of water are often used to cool things of fission. Most nuclear power plants sit on a river or lake or something like that and draw in water like it’s going out of style. I can only assume that nuclear submarines also have an adequate supply of available water for cooling (as they are designed for being under water — handy!). Does your dog have some sort of a huge dish that it drinks from?
Once I read a science fiction book called Snow Crash that had fission-powered “Rat Things” in it. They were about the size of dogs (in fact, I think they were dogs, maybe cyborg dogs or something), and they kept cool by running really really fast whenever they weren’t in special cooling chambers. Also, their skin was specially shaped to dissipate heat. Is your Atomic Dog a cyborg? That’d be pretty neat. I’ll bet you could get it to fight crime if it was a cyborg.
Well George, thanks for taking the time to read this letter. It’s nice to know that musicians can also be innovators in the field of fission-powered pets. Thanks for being an inspiration for all of us!
Your Fan,
Corey