Jammed Underground The function of the CMJ marathon, as it was in 1981, is less to help unknown bands crash into the big time -- as much as they think they'd like to -- than to reinforce and spread those word-of-mouth networks.
And the risks of some unknown financial crash seemed significant.
It televised chess from Iceland, ping pong from China, auto racing from France, and ski flying from Oberstdorf, Germany, an event where an unknown Yugoslav crashed and became forever associated with "the agony of defeat".
The first experiment was realized with a car driving simulator, and was carried out on 30 subjects whom were asked to drive along a run of 50 kilometers to the unknown pre-crash situation.
The episode ends with a cliffhanger when an unknown vehicle crashes into their car, leaving their fates unclear.
It has taken until this summer, and $40m, to narrow down its location to within a 5km zone, but still it remains elusive and the cause of the crash unknown.
Its destination was unknown, and it crashed while the F-16's from Langley, which had stayed aloft over Washington and were tracking it, were about 100 miles, or about six minutes, away.
That was the question on everyone's lips when an unknown woman gate-crashed the Indian team's lap of the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony on Friday night.
He maneuvered himself, as a completely unknown starstruck gate-crasher, into the company of the ailing and ill-tempered Rousseau, and quickly found himself on terms of easy intimacy with the great man (and eventually with his mistress too, who even lent a hand to raise him from impotence).
