After the launch, and the marathon of line-of-sight calibrations, we left LDB for the last time. Thanks to a bureaucratic mess-up, we only had some wet lab space available for our flight control shifts. Eventually we moved to an office and lost some space and our window, but gained ability to eat and drink and not smell like fish.
Happy new year!
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Goodbye LDB
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New Digs
Wet lab
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Complete with sinks and seawater pipes
And smell of fish
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Outside is the "Petting Zoo"
Full of touchable underwater crawlies
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Petting zoo
Also with amorphous blobbies
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Starfish eating fish head
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Antarctic Toothfish
Creepy smile, teeth, antifreeze in blood, and almost 100lbs
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Tower of data
To conserve space in the tiny room we moved to, so that EBEX could use the larger wet lab space
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On shift
Looking at data, sending commands, hoping things keep working
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Room to breathe
If only just. All six of us are around for some debugging
Thank you for the petting zoo! Those legs are amazing. I’m glad you can still meet; albeit cozy. Happy New Year!