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The 8-foot-tall telescope with a 12-inch glass lens that Smalley ground himself, and the homemade radio transmitter that he once likened to a couple of legs because he could "get all over the country with it" are missing, as is the robot that could turn its head, wink, talk in a strange language of clicks and dance at Smalley's behest.
He claimed to have forsworn his youth, which was apparently so unruly that eight years of it are missing from the public record; "I burned myself at [lust] in my youth, and suffered all the furies that the poets say come upon all those who let themselves go after women without restraint and without judgment" was how he described those years, when he was in his fifties.
"The people who are not in the field are reading the hype and being misled into thinking what they are doing is revolutionary and that people who aren't doing it are missing the boat," Primack says.
It was missing its personal punt protector.
In fact, it's missing its final act.
It was missing its headstock.
Unfortunately, it's missing.
