A few days of working hard, cryo issues, poring over data, coding, and hole drilling. As Barth is fond of saying, “Step by tedious step we stumble away from abject failure.” Very motivating.
No dogs in the lab
When inside, Laika often waits just outside the lab
Why can't I do science too?
Colourful beetle
Dead and slightly crunched
Colourful underside
Less slightly crunched
Ed loads the BB pistol
The BB guns are a fun afternoon stress-relief activity
Becky
Being badass in a pride shirt
Ed takes aim
The target: stuff on a pylon
Becky and the pistol
Boresight star camera
Fully fligleized and ready to go
Natalie and her star camera desk
Don and his detector data desk
Wrestling with code for most of the day
Sunset watchers
Sunset
Sunset watchers at sunset
Data display
Jamil set up monitor stacks to give the cryo team new ways to obsess over timestreams
Fireworks
For "Late Canada Day"
Helium fill
Theo is hungry, Jon knows what to do
Anne handles the fill tube
Ed removes Theo's fill line cap
Nitrogen fall
Nitrogen condenses out of the air along the long exhaust tube
Waveplate motor control box
Recently fixed and neatened by Anne
Natalie's first gas fill
She's left me alone on the team of urban non-drivers
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