Smash Atoms at Home for Fun & Profit

[beamjockey]

There seems to be some local resistance to the scheme of a guy who wants to install a cyclotron in his house in Alaska.

Comments

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Geez, ya'd think he was messing round with dangrious stuff, like a Meth lab or moonshine still. NIMBY spoilsports.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Humph! Flibbertigibbet stuff, I wanna do neutron imbritlement rates on C60 tubes that are the key to my giant robot/mvp. And maybe confuse Bill by shooting my neutrons at his target up near Duluth

Valiantly trying not to gloat....

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Currently crunching data from bouncing neutrons and x-rays off of shiny things. Neutrons courtesy of IPNS, and x-rays from the Advanced Photon Source. You want photons? We got photons! X-ray pix of steel fuel injector nozzles with submicron resolution! Europium K-edge XANES in less than half an hour! God, I love this job....

(BTW, see you & whumpdotcom at WisCon?)

Re: Valiantly trying not to gloat....

[(Anonymous)]

oooh, jealousy! I like my job, but I don't get to play with the seriously huge photon sources.

we will be at Wiscon, it's our yearly hajj that lets me deal with the other fifty-one weeks of mundane patriarchy.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

"Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."
"Yep. Let's get ready. Switch me on."

[phuphuphnik.livejournal.com]

I talked to this guy on the phone last night. He needs support to do this. I think that he has good intentions.

[asfi.livejournal.com]

A friend e-mailed me a link to this article. For some strage reason it made me think of you: WWBD?

[charlie-meadows.livejournal.com]

I find myself thinking about what his electric bill would have looked like. (But then there are people in the suburbs around here who probably end up spending more on Christmas lighting...)