I need some of these dichros!

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<kent> It's your own fault, Knight, didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics were clean?

Gotta love Real Genius!
<Chris> "Do you mind if I name my first child after you? Dipshit Knight has a nice ring to it..."

Back on topic though, I agree that the picture was probably taken for PR purposes only. It wouldn't make sense to leave those optics exposed like that.

Adam

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allowing for the smog, I wonder what generates that much red.

Steve

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There is a story that makes its rounds in the ham radio community. A lady with a amateur radio license in like Nebraska buys a new in the box broadband Rf amplifier at a surplus auction. A really nice flat passband amplifier from like 100 mhz to 25 ghz, in a tiny box. So she calls the manufacturer for some specs to power up her nice surplus toy. The next day a Navy officer and 4 Navy SPs with M16s show up at her door and ask nicely for the unit, not taking no for answer. Turns out it was a 100,000$ unit for a satellite, that was not ment to be let go. She sues the Navy for her money back plus damages and wins.

You wont find that one on snopes.

Pre 9/11 I worked for a surplus company. I should have kept the intact B52 tail gun radar assembly.......


Steve

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which will eventually make it into the hands of a some uneducated inner city youth, who will make a youtube video of him and his friends pointing it at young ladies, it will get confiscated by a beat cop and the thing will end up in the evidence room where it will go undiscovered until that precinct closes down due to lack of funding and the laser will get sold at auction to the highest bidder.. That of course will be the US government who plan to mount it in an airplane and the cycle begins all over again...

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I think you can ask the North Koreans if it, or if its ship based cousin works. At 2.5 Mw, you need what , OD6 goggles for the entire state of California when they test........

Steve

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There is a story that makes its rounds in the ham radio community. [snip]

Something like this happened to me once. I picked up a rather nice pile of chemistry equipment including a portable HPLC system at a police auction for very little money. Somewhat surprised of my success, I called the manufacturer of the latter to see if they had a manual for it I could buy, they said they could send me a photocopy, so I gave them my address. The next day the cops showed up at my door wanting their HPLC back. It turned out that the Drug Squad had mislaid it and it was never supposed to be in the lot at all.

I didn't get to sue them though. When they were through asking me difficult questions about what I was planning to do with the glassware and assorted hardware I felt like it would have been easier if I had been planning something nefarious... sadly I was only making my own photographic chemicals. It was remarkably difficult to persuade them of this!

[dar303]

OT:
HPLC, is that some kind of chromatograph, gas? Sounds cool, did you have time to try it?
Tocket here on PL is a chemist and told me of a spectrophotometer at his universitys recycling room. We were originally going to strip it for adjustable optics mounts and stuff but I found the computer and after some tweaking it turned out to be fully working from about 370nm to 800nm (the UV source is not so good anymore)! A Varian complete with all the software and GPIB-cards etc! Nice!

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I didn't get to sue them though. When they were through asking me difficult questions about what I was planning to do with the glassware and assorted hardware I felt like it would have been easier if I had been planning something nefarious... sadly I was only making my own photographic chemicals. It was remarkably difficult to persuade them of this![/quote]

That is a prime worry here, I don't have much glassware, I ditched the chems, but one look at my home lab.......

The problem would be finding expert witnesses to testify that what I have is legal and pretty much harmless compared to the tank of propane hooked to the barbie.

I do know that I show up in Ohio's drivers license database, as Research Employee, University Lab. I heard it on the cop radio one winter night waiting for the cops to jump start my car.

I can hear the response if some one just walked in, what the hell is Krypton, high purity???? Iis that like Kryptonite? What is a Ion pump controller? What the heck is a 21 Gigasomething 3 Band Microwave Phase Locking Counter. What is a stick of canary glass. Why does he have a 72o Radiac set.... Wait, what does Radiac mean, "C" Rosin Flux, whatsa flux?? Whatsa a spectrophotometer Rubidium frequency whatsit?
Hey, nice low light camera...... 7780 glass powder,,, Oh shit, call Hazmat, we gotta get out of this place.... We're all gonna die...

everything really nasty is stored in the barn, and that is mostly a gas welding rig.

If I had too, I have evrything short of the orbital tig welder and the lapidary rig and hydrogen furnace to make a ion tube from scratch, and there are ways around everything but item 1 on that list.

Trust Me, my Bedroom is right over the lab, and I worry more about the gas furnace and the box of shotgun ammo then anything in the lab.


Steve

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OT:
HPLC, is that some kind of chromatograph, gas? Sounds cool, did you have time to try it?
Tocket here on PL is a chemist and told me of a spectrophotometer at his universitys recycling room. We were originally going to strip it for adjustable optics mounts and stuff but I found the computer and after some tweaking it turned out to be fully working from about 370nm to 800nm (the UV source is not so good anymore)! A Varian complete with all the software and GPIB-cards etc! Nice!

Those things are littered all over the states, in working order, because some bean counter winces at the cost of a new D2 lamp. That's why I got mine. 75$ at auction, brand new in the box, broken D2 lamp.

Steve

[Stuka]

I wonder if that's the secret-squirrel project that's supposed to show up at FLEM this weekend...

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