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This is why I usually try to keep Natalie on my good side<\/div><\/div>!["Stop stinging yourself" \u2022 <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/9109612601\/" target="_blank">View on Flickr<\/a>](https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3829\/9109612601_3a17992f6d_m.jpg "\\"Stop stinging yourself\\"")
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In preparation for the liquid nitrogen fill<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Trying to talk with bolt in mouth <\/div>
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<\/a>New front plate <\/div>
Complete with fancy engravings<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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An oven started in an insulated tube<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Theo, with external electronics attached <\/div>
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Over the previous couple days, we worked to make Theo externally complete. The goal was to be ready to transfer the first cryogens. This included preparing vacuum\/fill plumbing, preapring the cryogenic thermometer readout (aka housekeeping), and generally attaching things to Theo. Theo also had to be tipped to a lower elevation, which makes her seem a lot more like a telescope. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}