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[Boatboy24]

View attachment 47544 My baby is blooming!!! A 2 year old plumeria.

A Plumeria in Alaska. Now I've seen everything.

 

[AkTom]

Obviously it’s an indoor plant. Even in the summer, it stays inside. I wish I could live in a green house with an attached brewery/winery.

 

[ibglowin]

Socorro (NM) Sunset

 

[bkisel]

Today's hike was to Sand Run Falls...

 

[bkisel]

Furniture repair. One less item (for now) off the "honey do list".

 

[ibglowin]

I bet nobody with the exception of perhaps Paul ( sour_grapes ) will ever figure out what this is a snap of!

 

[sour_grapes]

Not quite sure -- it in many ways looks like a large tandem van de Graaff, but not one that I have seen before. Mostly I've used Super FNs, but I have used BNLs tandem, which looks a bit like that...

Probably I am way off.

 

[Trevor7]

Thank goodness for Google's Image Search... It pegged it immediately!
It said:
"Best guess for this image: metal"

 

[jswordy]

Cutting, splitting stacking. Only the stump is left to go. Have to wait until it gets cleared around the base. Gonna be heavy work, no time to lose footing. I took the wood pile completely apart and cleaned up the area to start. Had a powder beetle infestation in the cherry wood. Full trailer load is backed up ready to add to the stack.

 

[Papa]

It's a crayfish by a canoe rope if you don't zoom in .......but if you do zoom it turns in a lobster by a big boat's rope

 

[ibglowin]

Probably I am way off.

 

[dcbrown73]

Cutting, splitting stacking. Only the stump is left to go. Have to wait until it gets cleared around the base. Gonna be heavy work, no time to lose footing. I took the wood pile completely apart and cleaned up the area to start. Had a powder beetle infestation in the cherry wood. Full trailer load is backed up ready to add to the stack.

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Did you do it like this?

 

[dcbrown73]

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Nice, I'm studying amplifiers now (well, and other components of making amateur radios) to get my (FCC) Extra license.

 

[sour_grapes]

Believe it or not, inertial confinement fusion crossed my mind, but I explicitly rejected it because that tube didn't look like (to an unschooled me) anything that could be involved with inertial confinement. I am fairly ignorant of Antares. I do not know if I am right or not, but I always imagined the ICF as more-or-less spherical, with radiation raining down from 4 pi.

 

[sour_grapes]

Did you do it like this?

Probably not, just because Wordy wouldn't want to be bothered by converting to 122 cm x 244 cm 122 cm piles.

 

[Boatboy24]

Did you do it like this?

Years ago, I had a 2nd floor office with a beautiful, wooded view. Deer, woodpeckers - all kinds of wildlife viewing from my desk. The land was eventually developed and I was just amazed with the machinery that came in and cleared out those trees. Rather repetitive, but I still didn't get any work done for weeks. It was fascinating to watch.

 

[ibglowin]

I hired in on the tail end of most all of the "big physics" projects and the "Star "Wars" era of the Reagan years. Those were good years to work at LANL. Plenty of funding across the lab and all of its core divisions. It was like they would back up several armored cars full of $$$ each year and say "is that enough or do you need more?" LOL

I found a schematic showing the amp/laser setup.



In the end, the DOE terminated the Antares laser research program at the end of 1985 because of a technical problem; Los Alamos discovered that long-wavelength lasers generated electrons that preheated the target containing the fuel for the fusion reaction, thereby preventing fusion; The DOE and LANL believed the problem would have required developing an impractical and expensive laser system for effective use; LANL's efforts to fix the technical problem were unsuccessful; LANL conducted two technical evaluations and concluded that the Antares technology was not a good candidate for achieving fusion; and two scientific panels' reviews supported the LANL conclusion.

Believe it or not, inertial confinement fusion crossed my mind, but I explicitly rejected it because that tube didn't look like (to an unschooled me) anything that could be involved with inertial confinement. I am fairly ignorant of Antares. I do not know if I am right or not, but I always imagined the ICF as more-or-less spherical, with radiation raining down from 4 pi.

 

[sour_grapes]

Cool. Thanks for that explanation. Even after you told me it was for inertial confinement fusion, I didn't realize that your first pic was ONE BIG laser. I still had the idea that there were multiple lasers being housed there.

 

[ibglowin]

We still have plenty of lasers, (and beams) of all sorts hitting targets around this place. At least twice a week they do explosives testing back in the canyons that can shake and rattle windows for miles. Sometimes they can even be felt as far away as Santa fe (30 miles).

http://www.lanl.gov/science-innovation/science-facilities/trident-laser-facility/

http://www.lanl.gov/science-innovation/science-facilities/index.php

I still had the idea that there were multiple lasers being housed there.

 

[Trevor7]

Such cool stuff being done with lasers! The geek in me likes to do a yearly visit to LIGO and hear about the latest gravitational wave discoveries. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA