Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Cyclotron

Famous device which helped usher in the nuclear age is scrap-bound.

via Slashdot

It sounds like there are fond memories:

"...word-of-mouth instructions: Find the out-of-order men’s bathroom, and send the skinniest person in your party shimmying up the heating vent and into the hallway of the abandoned laboratories, where she can open the door for everyone else."

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Wish I had this useful information a few moths ago, I would have tried myself! Would love to get a chunk of it to take home, would make a nice conversation piece.

mc said...

Yes, that would have been an adventure!!

God knows what is just underneath above or around you.

Have you seen the underground group in Paris that has been renovating and attending to historical materials?

Very very cool.