Video of SPring8
Trip Start
Apr 02, 2007
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Trip End
Apr 11, 2007
Aioi, Japan
Saturday, April 7, 2007
The nights were beautiful, the clouds descended.. those yellow streetlights cast eerie shadows, and the mist made it hard to see the deer before they saw me. That's right. Deer, running around making high pitched noises (a sniff, it's called), avoiding me and my camera (and my backpack and noisy laptop case and bike). I'm still wondering how they knew I was there.
damn it i cant upload the video... i'll try again later. :|
this is what the post used to be :
Check this little video out.. I sped it up for you to enjoy it quicker, and also because it was in Russian and this now sounds more like Japanese :):)
You see what it's like in a real synchrotron (wow, I hear you think). That little red button I show in the first few seconds is the Beam Dump - one of those times in your life "don't push the red button" actually means something.
You can also see quite clearly the curvature of the building in the last few seconds of the video - I think this is cool (for new viewers). If you're still curious, look up the Australian Synchrotron and it'll give you more info. Or SPring8, or ESRF. And no, particle accelerators are not the same thing.
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The deer are great aren't they? Always leaping out in front of you as a sort of 'here, have a shot of adrenalin' gesture. In the Biomedical Imaging Centre (which you should get a tour of sometime if you haven't yet) Beamline Scientist Uesugi-san has taken care of the perennial problem 'how to refer to the x-direction consistently' by naming the 'towards the door' direction as 'deer' and the 'away from the door' direction as 'anti-deer'. This refers to the side of the road where one deer and his car simultaneously met their doom.
deer me
that's pretty funny (does this make me a bad person?). did you notice the signs on the road (like our 'watch out for koalas' signs) that have cartoon bears on them? i wonder what animal they're referring to. we were driving too fast for me to photograph them though.