Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator

Wired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the vehicle upon which three Nobel Prizes were earned and a the next big project will boast an electron laser roughly 10 billion times more powerful than existing x-ray sources.

A spectrum of infinite scale

[Reverend528]

I'm tagging this songofthetwomilelinearparticleacceleratorstanforduniversity.

OK, we've got -part- of it

[KublaiKhan]

Now, when are we going to get the moon-sized space station to put it on?

Re:OK, we've got -part- of it

[moderatorrater]

Are you referring to the Death Star from Star Wars or from the Alan Parson's Project?

Re:SLAC is great, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well thats what happens when you mostly do "B" physics.

MUCH better than the CERN tour...

[Anonymous Coward]

...which merely leaves you going in circles.

Though I suspect the taxi driver was padding the fare.

Man, those budget cuts are rough.

[ScentCone]

I mean, that whole pictorial is just screen captures from Halflife.

Re:OK, we've got -part- of it

[iluvcapra]

...I believe the Alan Parson's project was some kind of hovercraft...

Take that, Berkeley!

[gillbates]

Our accelerator is longer.

though pointless

[Programmer_In_Traini]

although it is pointless, i cant resist the urge to mention this would make a perfect death ray machine in a james bond movie.

I'm also pretty sure it would make a cooler death ray than a linear accelerator, which, when you look at it, serves no purpose in world domination.

lastly but not least, the controls looks like the computers salvaged from the "2001 - a space odyssey" mission.

Bong?

[Frosty Piss]

Ladies and gentalmen, I give you the worlds most advanced bong... [wired.com]

Re:OK, we've got -part- of it

[Anonymous Coward]

... but was it full of eels?

Re:Bong?

[Prefader]

Score:4, Interesting?! The mods must be hi . . . oh.

Re:Crazy tag

[treeves]

Not unique - there's always the dupes!

Weird Tags

[Anonymous Coward]

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Do I have to submit a few stories as "I Don't Believe in Ridiculous Tags" to make a point, or will this behavior self-correct before then?