Re: Tracking of Killer Asteroids Runs Low on Money and Short on Time

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:32:22 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:00:15 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:04:17 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

...Firing the
world's biggest laser.

THEL? I design tooling fixtures for components of the ABL:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/abl.htm

Cool.

This is NIF:

http://www.llnl.gov/nif/

We did the master timing system that fires everything, over 2000
different "clients" that have to be triggered with ps precision, and
we also did the amplitude modulators for the 192 beam lines.

The modulators are in the master oscillator room, 6th picture here...

http://www.llnl.gov/nif/project/lib_highlights.html

which has a lot more gear in it now than when the photo was taken. The
lower of the two pink posters stuck to the rack is a pic of our
modulator chassis. The timing modules are scattered all over the site.

Pretty impressive, all right!

Cheers!
Rich

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