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- xirfan, on 07/09/2009, -0/+19'atom smasher' is a ***** cool term.
- mtnboy, on 07/09/2009, -0/+15These are some cool photos
- RadiatedAnt, on 07/09/2009, -0/+10someone needs a hug...
- Frixionburne, on 07/09/2009, -0/+9I wonder if they would allow people to snag some "souvenirs" from the demolition site. It would be nice to have a piece of history.
- Zomgondo, on 07/09/2009, -0/+8I worked at LBL in 2001... I used to have to go into the Bevatron building all the time. It wasn't in operation and hadn't been for a long time, but they were waiting to tear it down because a lot of the components were still too radioactive. If you look at the photo on the bottom of the first page - the one with the bulldozer - you can see the yellow line painted on the ground. You could spend as much time as you wanted outside that yellow line, if you went inside it you were supposed to wear a dosimeter.
Even cooler were some of the labs which had red lines painted on the ground which basically meant "don't go in here without a radiation suit on."
Some of my coworkers were telephone techs who had to spend some time INSIDE the Bevatron as we had a bunch of telephone lines that went over / through it for some reason... apparently it was quite spooky in there. One of them, after spending a few days in the Bevatron, accidentally made the mistake of running the dosimeter he had worn through an airport X-ray machine... the medics didn't think it was as funny as he did :) - digggggggggg, on 07/09/2009, -0/+6I live in Berkeley and work at LBL, where the Bevatron is being demolished. I can tell you that the city has a lot of problems with the lab hauling the demolished remains down the hill and through the city because of possible residual radiation, so I can't imagine that they would encourage visitors to pick up their own pieces. In addition, the lab doesn't allow visitors, and even employees can't get into the demolition site.
But yeah, it would be awesome if you could though... - smartnerd666, on 07/09/2009, -0/+6It's probably quite expensive maintaining it and supplying the energy needed to run it.
- LordByr0n, on 07/09/2009, -1/+6Very cool photos. Its too bad there are not on the same page. Cant wait for the day when we have the technology that actualy does that. But that will take, what, 50 years?
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4youtube is that way ->
- hasslinthehoff, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Looks like the smasher is getting... smashed?
- raks1991, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4
Hasn’t anyone thought of selling interesting small pieces of it to the physics nerds of the world ? Non-radioactive (of course) small pieces, mounted on nice wall plaques with a small inscription.Mounted vacuum tubes and signage would sell out quickly. - zjbird, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3why don't the icons match the pictures?
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nvm you can scroll down to see the icon pic, lol - MAGZine, on 07/09/2009, -2/+510 pages?!? wtf!
Great pics though. Worth the click-through. - Unsanity, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2that's actually usually how it's done at these labs, scientists propose an experiment and if approved they get free use of the facility.
this one is just outdated and falling apart. - enantiodromia, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2maybe because "particle accelerator" only indicates a machine which, accelerates particles. it's the actual particle collisions which are interesting to most people, therefore, "atom smasher".
if you really want to get upset with a stupid cliche, how about the fact that everything in America is measured in how many football fields long they are? i am pretty sure even the most backward hillbilly is aware that a football field is "100 yards" long at this point. - DirtyVicar, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1The article description looked like it said "50s" and "Beavatron, so I was sort of expecting a story about how that gamma ray's really giving them the business and they're gonna go over and slug him one.
- TextingTina, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Did it ever work?
- RadiatedAnt, on 07/09/2009, -1/+2why didn't they just open it to the public so scientists can work in a free lab
- widgetmaker, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1heh we get things measured in football (soccer) fields, and the length of that is varied so it isn't even an accurate silly measure!
- CedEx, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1You know what else sounds cool? "Face smasher".
And it looks like somebody here needs one... I'm not going to say who. But I think they know who. - enantiodromia, on 07/09/2009, -1/+1i think i know what i am doing this weekend.
/me clears up a lot of SD cards - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -1/+1hmmm, it looks somewhat familiar, was that in Terminator 3? Bitch got magnetized.
- xedd, on 07/09/2009, -3/+2Hey smartnerd666, so you don't like being talked to like you are a 5-year old? Then I've got a book that will set you bursting into flames: Dan Brown's 'Angels and Demons'...
About 50 pages was all I could take. - smartnerd666, on 07/09/2009, -11/+2Why can't we eliminate "atom smasher" from our lexicon? Anybody that might be reading about the world's largest particle accelerator will surely know what a particle accelerator is and does not need to be talked to like a 5 year old.
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -17/+1"Now with more gaylord."
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