Posted on 10/27/2005 7:41:06 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The tent looked so big when it was first installed. The vaulted top stands 35 feet above the ground. It is 40 feet wide. The door is almost 30 feet high. Its gleaming white. In short, its a perfect place within which to build the antennas for the Allen Telescope Array.
Well, when you build an entire 20 x 24 foot antenna on a pedestal inside of it, all of a sudden the tent doesnt look so big. In fact, the door looks a skosh too small. But the assembly does fit in the tent; even the somewhat tricky "flip" needed in the assembly process cleared the ceiling. It also fit through the door, with an inch or two to spare, just as we knew it would. But we still sighed a bit in relief. Our factory was in production! And it all went superbly, a tremendous credit to our chief mechanical engineer, Matt Fleming, who conceived and designed the antenna mount and all of the associated fixtures and hardware.
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oops. There's a booger on the screen (not literally a booger) and I thought it said "Alien" rather than "Allen". Figured the topic was a joke of some sort. ;')
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