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Yesterday the cryostat was put up on the gondola. This is possibly the trickiest lift we do, but we ended up doing it so many times in Palestine, that we’ve had a lot of practice. Anyway, even though “all lifts are hazardous lifts”, this one warranted more attention. So, about a dozen people were involved. […] Yesterday members of the first, second, and fourth waves took a well-earned day off (except Elio, who’s crazy). After failing to join a Cape Evans tour as alternates, Laura, Juan, and I walked the Castle Rock Loop. It was a gorgeous day, and it was good to go for a long-ish hike (at 7 miles, […] Two days ago (sorry for the delay, I took a day off, plus had WAY too many photos to sort through) I spent most of the day using the 200mm telephoto lens to spy on people form the mezzanine. Or take uncomfortable closeups of their faces. I was just working at my computer, and needed […] Yesterday, Juan started making noticeable progress on his next mylarization project: the main sun shields. While a lot bigger than the scoop, they’re a bit easier due to having more planar surfaces. In cryostat land, beam maps started being made as the next step in the long line of calibrations and tests. This means Enzo […] Yesterday evening Matt and I felt ditched by everyone else so decided to go on the long-awaited Moustache Tour. (We weren’t ditched, and in the minutes after feeling so, bumped into almost everybody else that we spend time with here. We even recruited a few of them.) The Moustache Tour is a visit to the […] Yesterday evening Juan, Laura, Lorenzo, Tristan, and I took a tour of the pressure ridges down by Scott Base. This is where the sea ice collides with the permanent ice shelf and forms mini ice mountains. It’s a pretty impressive sight, even from afar as we drive past it on the way to LDB. I […] I have way too many pictures from yesterday, so I had to cut a bunch that I normally would have posted. This is partly because I took a bajillion pictures of CREAM, as The Boss dragged it out onto the wooden pad. Such operations are delicate, from a safety point of view, so it’s really […] Yesterday The Boss was getting antsy from sitting around all the time. He had to lift something, and then release it. That’s what The Bosses do. And they do it well. So, it turns out yesterday I made the hundredth post to this site! Hundredth! (And I completely failed to notice at the time…) Anyway, yesterday was a quiet half-day Sunday. We slept in and experienced Sunday brunch for the first time (except me; I slept in too long). Ben, a GA who visited here before, […] Yesterday I took a tour around outside LDB, looking at the variety of special-purpose sleds and trucks that they use out here. Unsurprisingly, many are made in Canada, just like our awesome parkas (though unlike Laura’s far less awesome imitation parka). We also continue to go without liquid helium, needed to further cool the detectors. […] |
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