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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
The real-life Brookhaven National Laboratory once had a particle accelerator called the "Cosmotron". It was the first atom smasher able to reach energies of a billion electron volts, and was dismantled in 1966. | *The real-life Brookhaven National Laboratory once had a particle accelerator called the "Cosmotron". It was the first atom smasher able to reach energies of a billion electron volts, and was dismantled in 1966. | ||
*The lyrics to the French G1 cartoon theme song reference a cosmotron. The same lyrics also make a seemingly arbitrary mention of [[Dr. Alcazar]] from "[[Roll For It]]", so it may be a reference to this device. However, from the context of the song it sounds more like it's supposed to be a spaceship. There is, in fact, a spaceship called the Cosmotron in the 1970 sci-fi novel, ''Tom Swift and his Cosmotron Express'', but this seems like an even less likely explanation. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* [http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/cosmotron.asp Information on Brookhaven's Cosmotron accelerator] | * [http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/cosmotron.asp Information on Brookhaven's Cosmotron accelerator] | ||
*[http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~sstoneb/tf/sounds/french-lyrics.txt Lyrics to and translation of the French G1 theme song] | |||
[[Category: MacGuffins]] | [[Category: MacGuffins]] | ||
[[Category: Generation 1]] | [[Category: Generation 1]] | ||
[[Category: Transformer anatomy]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div> | [[Category: Transformer anatomy]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div> | ||
Revision as of 19:18, 23 January 2007
- A cosmotron is a transformer internal organ in the Sunbow portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
A cosmotron is a piece of Cybertronian technology of unspecified function. What is known is that Optimus Prime's cosmotron was severely damaged during a battle with the Decepticons, and the Autobot leader surely would have perished if his cosmotron had not been replaced, suggesting that whatever purpose it serves is a vital one. Divide and Conquer
Trivia
- The real-life Brookhaven National Laboratory once had a particle accelerator called the "Cosmotron". It was the first atom smasher able to reach energies of a billion electron volts, and was dismantled in 1966.
- The lyrics to the French G1 cartoon theme song reference a cosmotron. The same lyrics also make a seemingly arbitrary mention of Dr. Alcazar from "Roll For It", so it may be a reference to this device. However, from the context of the song it sounds more like it's supposed to be a spaceship. There is, in fact, a spaceship called the Cosmotron in the 1970 sci-fi novel, Tom Swift and his Cosmotron Express, but this seems like an even less likely explanation.
