From the Bookshelf of The Sword and Laser…

"The sun rose to the middle of the sky. Everything that floated -- men, colossal blocks of stone, astronomical instruments, bronze cauldrons -- began to rise slowly, then accelerated. Wang glanced at the human-formation computer and saw a nightmarish sight: The thirty million men who had formed the motherboard were floating away from the earth and rising, like a swarm of ants sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. The ground they left behind clearly displayed the marks of the motherboard circuits. The s

"The sun rose to the middle of the sky. Everything that floated -- men, colossal blocks of stone, astronomical instruments, bronze cauldrons -- began to rise slowly, then accelerated. Wang glanced at the human-formation computer and saw a nightmarish sight: The thirty million men who had formed the motherboard were floating away from the earth and rising, like a swarm of ants sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. The ground they left behind clearly displayed the marks of the motherboard circuits. The set of intricate, complex markings that could only be taken in from a great height would become an archaeological site that would confuse the next Three Body civilization, in the distant future."