Yesterday was BLAST’s last time going out with Tiny Tim. It’s sad, I know. Yesterday was important for 2 reasons – 1) We passed compatability! ie. when all our stuff is turned on, it doesn’t mess with CSBF’s stuff; and 2) I found out the story behind what we were calling the “Awesome Chair of Awesomeness” on Tiny Tim – – it is The Chair from which the call to abort the launch is made. And the official name for it (according to Curtis the Rigger) is the “Oh Shit Chair”.
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- Mark & Matt, discussing nothing in particular, with Gertrude & Gary in the foreground, discussing more important matters
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- Joseph goes up on the cherry picker to tend to his favourite antenna, which is as big as an elephant, and more fragile than a baby kitten
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- After the sunshields come off, Nick removes the star cameras so the cryostat can be installed. Meanwhile, hundreds of people visit a certain website…
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- Laura missed breakfast, and we don’t have any food in the highbay today. So here she is either working on mcp, or dazed from lack of food and having an out-of-body experience
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- Giles gets called on a lot to drive back to the hotel to rescue people who got “left behind”. Thanks Giles!
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- Laura turns a hoseclamp into a headband
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- Tristan turns big allen keys into… um… Tristan’s just weird
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- Mark likes to just hold the cigar, and walk around with it
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- BLAST on Tim once again. BLAST is happy on Tim. BLAST wishes it could be on Tim forever. Tim feels the same way about BLAST.
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- BLAST is picked up, and the CSBF guys swoop in to install solar panels
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- Barth wanted me to take a picture of him looking “concerned”
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- Mark uses kevlar string to secure the CSBF solar panels
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- Victor is by far the most awesome person in the universe (The Entire Universe)
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- CSBF guys also possess a level of coolness and awesomeness to which I aspire
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- Curtis the Rigger, relaxing in the Oh Shit Chair
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- Laura poses with her thesis project. Can a theorist do that? No, a theorist cannot
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- This box gets filled with steel sand for the eponymous event of this blog
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- The SpiderBoreSightCamera/SteveBentonStarCamera, mounted on BLAST for the first time, sans Baffy
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- Mark ordered/encouraged me to photograph BLAST from the roof, so I obliged
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- While I’m up there, I get a photo of the launch pad / exercise track / stargazing venue / land of wild boars
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- This time, I think Barth wanted a picture of him looking “confused”. But once again I think the emotion captured is “concerned”
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- Tim brings BLAST back safe and sound from their last date… for now…
Who, that’s so cool. Great work.
BTW. Scoopy the scoop looks gorgeous. I can’t wait to see it covered!!!
Congrats! Best wishes to your team on the ice–it will be fun to follow along.