Later a fog machine tries to take over the show — dry ice is pumped from a far corner of the space, creating a thick, hovering cloud — until one of the speakers, seemingly jealous, commands it to stop: "It's so theatrical".
It owes the respect it commands to its unmatched skill at improving peoples' lives.
"With the scale the company has, the economies of scale it can command, it basically extracts every last nickel out of its suppliers," says Michael Bride, deputy overseas organising director at the United Food & Commercial Workers Union in Washington.
It has no army, it commands no police force, it's unelected, its members serve for life.
Despite these differences, Robey notes, an organization's size and the resources it commands say more about how it approaches international research than its nationality.
You "release wealth," as they often put it, by commanding it to come to you.
You can't instruct it, you can't order it, you can't command it.
It's also got hands-free functions so you can command it by voice, and it'll read out steps from the cooking instructions.
When the Vindhya mountain range would not stop growing, Agastya crossed it to the south and commanded it to cease growing until his return; he still has not returned.
Generally, the trajectory of the spacecraft is planned out years in advance, and so "steering" it just a matter of commanding it to do the proper rocket burns at the proper times, and making tiny adjustments.
