Amen brother. I am now on the third iteration of my home built audio system with each being progressively better than the last. Many moons ago when I first began collecting and creating my music collection it was 128kbps MP3s. If I listen to that on this system, anything sounds like a sadomasochistic ogre orgy.
I work with gallium-indium-tin eutectic metals routinely. They definitely do not play well with some metals, specifically those commonly used in heat sinks. It will readily react with both aluminum and copper resulting in a nasty grayish black compound...not so good for moving heat.
However, I do use it against nickel plated copper surfaces with no problems provided that the nickel strike is well done; i.e. it's not porous. The metals it does play well with are typically stainless steel, but stainless is a very bad conductor of heat relative to copper and aluminum.
So, I would really like to know the characteristics of this beam. Are they creating and destroying positrons with the highest flux in the world? Here at CHESS, we run a beam of positrons as well as electrons in CESR with an energy of 5GeV @ 240mA. Granted they are recirculating through the ring, but the instantaneous power of this is [nearly and for effect] 1.21 GW. However, it if one were to direct this at a target, you would destroy the entire beam in nanoseconds. The sustained power would be that which the gun and linac can provide which is still huge (10's of MeV @ 10's of mA), albeit for 10's of minutes before the gun must cool.
I do wish the article gave more information. If someone has some, please post it.
Whether sadly or not, I can easily see the justification for this gag order. I am an engineer and the insults to design that I see within my field do nothing but reinforce my view that most others in this field are incompetent. Imagine this from a management's point of view:
1) You, being a state agency, have hired somewhere between the worst and mediocre engineers. (My apologies to the few exceptions to this rule).
2) They have performed work that you, personally, are not able to check.
3) These engineers, who unbeknown to you are inept, are now being interviewed by reporters who are just looking for anything to latch on to to prove that "they knew all along!".
4) Your engineers say something that may not be true or may only be partially true, or even may be fully true, but incomprehensible to the simple reporter no matter how hard he tries to explain. Believe me, I've been interviewed for many newspaper articles and the entire technical content of the interview was lost by taking sentences out of context.
I'm not saying that there is not a very sincere threat to government transparency with this issue, but one should at least examine legitimate motives for silencing engineers.
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Amen brother. I am now on the third iteration of my home built audio system with each being progressively better than the last. Many moons ago when I first began collecting and creating my music collection it was 128kbps MP3s. If I listen to that on this system, anything sounds like a sadomasochistic ogre orgy.
I work with gallium-indium-tin eutectic metals routinely. They definitely do not play well with some metals, specifically those commonly used in heat sinks. It will readily react with both aluminum and copper resulting in a nasty grayish black compound...not so good for moving heat. However, I do use it against nickel plated copper surfaces with no problems provided that the nickel strike is well done; i.e. it's not porous. The metals it does play well with are typically stainless steel, but stainless is a very bad conductor of heat relative to copper and aluminum.
So, I would really like to know the characteristics of this beam. Are they creating and destroying positrons with the highest flux in the world? Here at CHESS, we run a beam of positrons as well as electrons in CESR with an energy of 5GeV @ 240mA. Granted they are recirculating through the ring, but the instantaneous power of this is [nearly and for effect] 1.21 GW. However, it if one were to direct this at a target, you would destroy the entire beam in nanoseconds. The sustained power would be that which the gun and linac can provide which is still huge (10's of MeV @ 10's of mA), albeit for 10's of minutes before the gun must cool.
I do wish the article gave more information. If someone has some, please post it.
Whether sadly or not, I can easily see the justification for this gag order. I am an engineer and the insults to design that I see within my field do nothing but reinforce my view that most others in this field are incompetent. Imagine this from a management's point of view:
1) You, being a state agency, have hired somewhere between the worst and mediocre engineers. (My apologies to the few exceptions to this rule).
2) They have performed work that you, personally, are not able to check.
3) These engineers, who unbeknown to you are inept, are now being interviewed by reporters who are just looking for anything to latch on to to prove that "they knew all along!".
4) Your engineers say something that may not be true or may only be partially true, or even may be fully true, but incomprehensible to the simple reporter no matter how hard he tries to explain. Believe me, I've been interviewed for many newspaper articles and the entire technical content of the interview was lost by taking sentences out of context.
I'm not saying that there is not a very sincere threat to government transparency with this issue, but one should at least examine legitimate motives for silencing engineers.
Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't........nothing?