sweet!
Byron Como wrote:
> No pictures, although you'd need a telephoto crank attachment to get a good
> shot of the liquid nitrogen tanks at the end of each leg of the machine, 4km
> away from the control building. And yes, they have a control room with lots
> of monitors and wall displays, and remote controls for remote cameras and
> process controls for all sorts of remote switches and measuring devices.
> Quite an ordinary control room actually. Its a real yawner when you have to
> wait for the seismic wave action in the Gulf of Mexico to subside in order
> to get good readings from the machine. Yes, yes, quite ordinary. The real
> action is in the lecture hall where demonstrations of the technology and
> science are setup. Tesla coils, plasma tubes, spectrum analysis devices and
> other unidentifiable but no less interesting bits of scientific hardware.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour
>
>
>
>>Did anyone take pictures? I couldn't make it.
>>
>>Regards, Dustin
>>
>>At 12:33 AM 6/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>Shannon, that was great, and thank Ed too. I'll sleep tonight with dreams
>>
> of
>
>>>SunFire 880's and terabytes and terabyes of storage space.
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>To: <[email protected]>
>>>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:04 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Your Welcome! Just sorry it took so long to get it organized!
>>>>
>>>>The other guy was Ed Daw. I am not the best tour guide in the world.
>>>
> I
>
>>>>also cannot explain much of the physics, so I appreciated him helping
>>>>out on fairly short notice!
>>>>
>>>>Shannon
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:29, John Hebert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>First off, a big thank you to Shannon Roddy for
>>>>>organizing and handling the tour. I forgot the
>>>>>scientist's name who also helped with the tour, but
>>>>>please thank him for us, Shannon.
>>>>>
>>>>>The LIGO tour was great. It really is a first-class
>>>>>scientific research operation that is equal to an
>>>>>elite few around the globe that we can only read
>>>>>about. The data acquisition and data storage hardware
>>>>>was extremely cool. Very nice collection of computing
>>>>>power there. I strongly recommend that you take a tour
>>>>>sometime. Check the LIGO website for tour times:
>>>>>http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu .
>>>>>
>>>>>Shannon Roddy will try to organize another tour in the
>>>>>near future, so watch for updates on [email protected]
>>>>>mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>>John Hebert
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>__________________________________________________________________
>>>>Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology
>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory
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