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FrozenGate by Avery

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Thanks, it's been fun.
Ever since the arctic was promised with TEM00 and 1.5 mrad I have been chasing.
The BDR-209 is close to what we thought we were going to get....8 years ago...?
So now we have affordable 6+ watt diodes....with divergence like a Chinese fan.
I just had to fix it.
 

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Where I live and work as well as why I can't play with lasers here

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This is our front yard (airport control tower right above me).
 
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Hot clear skies, then cloudy, some rain, then clear again roasting us but it isn't the hot time of the year yet.
 
Is it low humidity, I know it's a desert so....low humidity Right?

That makes it a lot better, you just have to stay hydrated.

Now Miami, WOW you walk out of the AC and it's like your standing in hot soup.
 
Damn spammers ...

Anyway - took this a little after 11PM the other night. Sunset is currently at 11:20PM here but it never really gets dark, what we get is called "civil twilight" which is light enough to play golf or read a newspaper at night. The sun currently only dips ~5 degrees below the horizon. The days are currently 19 hours and 25 minutes long. Sunrise at 3:54AM.

More on that here: Sun & moon times today, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Hint: don't look at the winter solstice, those numbers are depressing... :p

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Full res: http://i.imgur.com/ug6ruCw.jpg
 
Cross post from the "high pressure mercury lamps" thread in a darker, dingier part of the forum. Two medium pressure mercury lamps, one (non working) specimen from the 1940s, and an Osram-GEC from a decade or two later. As a lamp collector I virtually hit the holy grail with these and was delighted to get them.

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For those interested, the pure mercury vapour spectrum is quite sparse and only has a few spectral lines. They release tons of UV, and plenty of violet - a 404nm and 436nm spectral line, as well as some blue, green, yellow and trace amounts of red.
 
You know there's going to be some pay back:whistle: Was pretty funny though:rolleyes:
 
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Bought this rubber snake on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/230823042078 - Put it at the door step of a coworker and later heard screams in the night when he went to his room :p

I don't know why, there are no coral snakes in Afghanistan.

I love it, I'm reading this just as I finished up a diversity training class at work!
I'm sure they would find this wrong in so many ways, maybe that's why I think it's funnier than hell. :eg:
 


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