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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2010-12-29 06:24 pm
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Frost and Sunshine at Fermilab

Here's what Fermilab looked like today, the first sunny day I can recall recently.








(By dinnertime it was overcast and gloomy again. That still doesn't spoil the magic of the morning.)

[identity profile] msminlr.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
What does that obelisk mark?

Or would you have to kill me after you told me?

And those are some INTERESTING power-line poles!

(Anonymous) 2010-12-30 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Frost and Fermilab, eh? Nearly had a Fred Pohl reference there.... :)

Bruce
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (zeusaphone rockin')

[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's "Acqua Alle Funi," by Fermilab's founding director, Robert Rathbun Wilson, cowboy, physicist, and sculptor. Read the link for more.

Wilson also designed the345 kV power-line poles. He didn't like the conventional criss-cross high-voltage tower.

He had firm opinions on how the place should look. He kept the architects on a tight leash. He tried weird ideas for building designs. Some of them worked well. He appointed an Aesthetics Committee to pick a paint scheme, and to ensure that Fermilab still looked like Fermilab as new construction projects grew up over the years.
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (kalamazoo)

[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
I did name one of the pictures "Fermi and Frost," though there's no real connection to Fred Pohl's 1985 SF story.

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Those photos almost make me miss winter.
:-)

A Happy New Year, Bill!

[identity profile] kevinnickerson.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice photos.