The assistant technical advisors there suggested that they could try to drill a tiny hole on the crystal using a powerful drill. The scientific team responded by saying that such a thing would have been quite helpful but they could not risk it and neither would it be advisable, as it would amount to nothing sort of sacrilege. That object, they said, should remain untouched and unmarred by all accounts. Besides, professor Nanos stressed, who would dare exercise violence on such absolute beauty? That would have amounted to sacrilege. Whatever operation on it would be desecration and irreverence. It would have shown disrespect and barbarism against nature and science. He also stressed that he could not comprehend any act of violence against the crystal, and feared that he would have had a hea
