The screens also were filled with tiny symbols depicting likely locations of lightning and hail, which can damage planes and wreak havoc on the nerves of white-knuckle flyers.
Flame may have been attacking computers since 2010 without being spotted, and researchers at Kaspersky think it may be a decade before they know just how much damage the code can wreak.
In the same way the company crushed panes of competitors glass with a press last year, it's now dropping a 130 gram ball from a height to see what damage and havoc it can wreak.
By reducing the panic-induced part of widening credit-spreads, the new liquidity tools mitigate the damage that dysfunctional credit markets would otherwise wreak on the economy.
Having reported on Japan's rise and collapse in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I witnessed firsthand the damage a major real estate meltdown can wreak.
Foreign Minister HASSAN WIRAYUDA (Indonesian Foreign Minister): Although the cost will be significant, it should be bearable in relation to estimated GDP and global investments, and certainly insignificant compared to the damage the yet uncontrolled climate change will wreak.