No, wait... Let me get this straight.
*Your job* is somehow connected to experiments with nuclear fusion?!?!?
Remarkable.
John
James wrote:
> Just thaught I would say, there is somthing real cool happening at work
> today. They are lifing a 15 ton vacume vessel, 4.2 round x 4.1 Meters
> through the roof of the hanger at work. If any of you were saw a big
> load with a police going up the M4, up the dule carageway towards oxford
> yesterday, you probebly saw MAST. The new fusion experiment here.
>
> Hopefuly the people who put the crain up got there calculations right.
> The roof is comming off very soon, and I'm going to have my lunch
> outside today. Nice day sunny weather.
>
> This reminds me of an artical I saw where a chap started a Spitfire
> restoration project, had an extension built, and realised he could not
> get it out. So a crain was hired, to lift the car up over the house,
> and put it down on his drive.
>
> Only thing is, this ways 15 tones compaired to 0.8, and they have to
> have alot of reach. So I recon on one of the feet of the crain they
> could have 60 tonnes of weight, on a 30 cm diamiter foot, with wood then
> a 1.2 meeter square block. Hope they did there maths right.
>
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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