Post your random pics!

[RedCowboy]

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.

 

[Alaskan]

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

This is our front yard (airport control tower right above me).

 

[RedCowboy]

What's the weather like?

 

[Alaskan]

Hot clear skies, then cloudy, some rain, then clear again roasting us but it isn't the hot time of the year yet.

 

[RedCowboy]

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.

 

[Alaskan]

Can be low, all you ever wanted to know about the weather here: https://www.tititudorancea.com/z/weather_bagram_afghanistan.htm

 

[RedCowboy]

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

This is our front yard (airport control tower right above me).

Those dishes are segmented, did you assemble those?

 

[Alaskan]

Yes, but had help. They are 2 meter diameter Ku-Ka band, up to 30 GHz.

 

[DashApple]

Original Jr Pac man arcade board running : D

1 by TwirlyWhirly555, on Flickr

P1000431 by TwirlyWhirly555, on Flickr

 

[diachi]

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...

Full res: http://i.imgur.com/ug6ruCw.jpg

 

[trencheel303]

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.

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.

 

[DashApple]

Very Nice .


Just got my super space invaders 91 from 1990 up and running : D

001 by TwirlyWhirly555, on Flickr

002 by TwirlyWhirly555, on Flickr

 

[Alaskan]

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

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

 

[GSS]

You know there's going to be some pay back Was pretty funny though

 

[Alaskan]

Yea, I deserve it.

 

[BowtieGuy]

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

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: