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Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the always-with-the-measuring-contest dept.

Wired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the vehicle upon which three Nobel Prizes were earned and a the next big project will boast an electron laser roughly 10 billion times more powerful than existing x-ray sources.

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  1. A spectrum of infinite scale by Reverend528 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm tagging this songofthetwomilelinearparticleacceleratorstanforduniversity.

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  2. OK, we've got -part- of it by KublaiKhan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, when are we going to get the moon-sized space station to put it on?

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    1. Re:OK, we've got -part- of it by moderatorrater · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are you referring to the Death Star from Star Wars or from the Alan Parson's Project?

    2. Re:OK, we've got -part- of it by iluvcapra · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...I believe the Alan Parson's project was some kind of hovercraft...

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    3. Re:OK, we've got -part- of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... but was it full of eels?

  3. Re:SLAC is great, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well thats what happens when you mostly do "B" physics.

  4. MUCH better than the CERN tour... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...which merely leaves you going in circles.

    Though I suspect the taxi driver was padding the fare.

  5. Man, those budget cuts are rough. by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, that whole pictorial is just screen captures from Halflife.

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  6. Take that, Berkeley! by gillbates · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our accelerator is longer.

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  7. though pointless by Programmer_In_Traini · · Score: 3, Funny

    although it is pointless, i cant resist the urge to mention this would make a perfect death ray machine in a james bond movie.

    I'm also pretty sure it would make a cooler death ray than a linear accelerator, which, when you look at it, serves no purpose in world domination.

    lastly but not least, the controls looks like the computers salvaged from the "2001 - a space odyssey" mission.

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  8. Bong? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ladies and gentalmen, I give you the worlds most advanced bong...

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    1. Re:Bong? by Prefader · · Score: 2, Funny

      Score:4, Interesting?! The mods must be hi . . . oh.

  9. Re:Crazy tag by treeves · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not unique - there's always the dupes!

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  10. Weird Tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    [+] science, technology, lookicanmakemytaglongerthananyotheraslongasitypeuptothelimit, itssodanotpop, songofthetwomilelinearparticleacceleratorstanforduniversity (tagging beta)

    Do I have to submit a few stories as "I Don't Believe in Ridiculous Tags" to make a point, or will this behavior self-correct before then?