{"id":5570,"date":"2011-05-24T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2012-11-23T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:07:08","slug":"floaty-orangeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Floaty Orangeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large bit of orangeness floatied its way around the highbay today.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the form of a blimp leftover from Boomerang, Mathew (a summer student) inflated it to test its lifting capacity. Such balloons are used to fly calibration sources so they can be 1km away and still 20\u00c2\u00b0 above the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5570 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=5576'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0349-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Play Time\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0349-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0349-166x250.jpg 166w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0349-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5576'>\n\t\t\t\tFirst thing to do with the balloon? Play with it!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=5575'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0351-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mathew\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0351-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0351-166x250.jpg 166w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0351-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5575'>\n\t\t\t\tMathew\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=5574'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0352-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Scale Overadequacy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0352-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0352-166x250.jpg 166w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0352-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5574'>\n\t\t\t\tOur pull scale is a bit too heavy duty for the test. But it manages to play a role anyway\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=5573'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0354-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Conference\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0354-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0354-166x250.jpg 166w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0354-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5573'>\n\t\t\t\tUnderblimptalk\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=5572'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0359-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Spider&#039;s New Buddy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0359-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0359-250x166.jpg 250w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0359-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5572'>\n\t\t\t\tFor a little while at least, Spider has a new buddy\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large bit of orangeness floatied its way around the highbay today. 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