YOU’RE BA-ACK! This calls for a post!
The more so seeing as I haven’t been around since March.
But I have good reasons:
https://als.lbl.gov/
The video featured on this page is the project I’m working on. Several of my co-workers are seen swarming about in this time-lapse sequence. Beyond the slabs of precisely-machined granite — 21 tons, in all — there’s a rectangular platform with a round stage on it. There will be a sample chamber set on this stage, and researchers are going to bombard it with a narrow band of light. The reflected beam will travel through a spectrometer assembly and then out a positionable arm to a detector.
What you see, here, is the supporting structure. The vacuum components, pumps, gauges, valves, controllers, and the rest
will all be mounted onto these supporting frames.
Anyway....LOTTA uber-cool stuff going on in my little corner of the Universe. But I’ll try to poke my nose in a bit more often.
WOW!!
Uber-cool is the right word, for sure!
I wondered where you had got to. Now I now, and it’s a worthy excuse! ;o]
Uber-cool indeed. But will it solve globull warming?
I.e., can it make AOC and AlGore shut up?
It didn't seem quite so involved and frenetic when Tony Stark built one of those in a cave, out of scrap.
Wish things would settle down my way.
Great to see you! Just one question: doesn’t the earth’s crust rearrange itself in CA somewhat frequently, and how do they compensate for that to keep the platform for the arm level?
Ooh Ahh indeed... I shall raise a glass of mead to your venture later today when it is a more socially acceptable time of the afternoon to do so...