Soon, a man in a headset asks the audience to generate rounds of "practice clapping," partly to test sound levels but also, perhaps, to splice into unforeseen lulls.
He would bring back Super-8 films of the Apollo launches, which Christopher would splice into home movies that he shot on his father's Super-8.
But rather than simply drying an existing vaccine, he wants to splice into the subtilis bacterium's DNA the ability to make the fragments of viral protein that provoke the immune reaction.
They exist only as loops, so physicists have long suspected that major changes involve reconnection, or a kind of cutting and pasting that allows one set of field lines to splice into adjacent ones.
Moseley won the gold medal in the 1998 event by inventing his own move -- the 360 Mute Grab -- during one of the two jumps mogul skiers splice into their teeth-jarring run through hundreds of manmade shoulder-high moguls.
The town's residents, he said, are happy to splice into any passing cable — the rat's nest of wiring above every alley illustrates how it is that everyone has cable TV even though virtually nobody pays for it.
