<\/a>Mark's favourite job <\/div>
Dealing with the batteries is scary<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Barth supervises tests <\/div>
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<\/a>Barth supervises more officially <\/div>
With clipboard and hard hat<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Elio in the crawlspace between the mirror and readout electoronics <\/div>
You can see that it's not a happy place to be<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Cookie Monster <\/div>
Just in case you forgot<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Receiver electronics power supply <\/div>
A well made and busy box. We didn't want to touch it. So we didn't<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Relay box <\/div>
Big power connectors<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Relay box innards <\/div>
Big relay<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Mylar Natalie <\/div>
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<\/a>Tristan doing real work <\/div>
This is even rarer than me doing real work, as opposed to sitting in front of a computer<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Inner frame break out box <\/div>
Where all the messiness of the inner frame wiring is confined<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Routing cables <\/div>
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<\/a>Tristan makes a lewd joke <\/div>
He does this. Often<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie installs spikes <\/div>
To impale the hands of people that try to grab the sun sensor mount<\/div><\/div>
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