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]

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.