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Avichal said the mission requires brute force but also a soft touch, as when an elderly woman in Altadena recently asked a cleanup crew for a personal treasure buried in her home’s rubble.

There was also the matter of the sculpture’s title, “Dark,” which referred to the artist’s claim that the word had been scrawled on the underside of the brute slab.

“If you try to do brute force, it’s going going to throw you off.”

The model, which aimed to simulate the brute force of a dinosaur bite, sits just outside of Blackley’s doorless personal office.

The former minister said that the Dyson prototype ultimately "did not get through testing" and "whenever confronted with brute facts about safety or otherwise, I would always accept them."