pictures from LIGO

[nibot]

LIGO-Hanford Control Room

Beamline electronics cabinets (VME crates)

Testing circuit boards

My rental car on some Hanford road

Arrival back in Rochester (the plane didn't make it all the way to the gate, due to the snow -- or something)

Comments

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

Way cool... for some reason that control center reminds me of the movie War Games.

And what are those red LED clocks counting down to? Kinda scary looking! Or is one of them just GMT?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

On the left is UTC, on the right is PST.. counting up, to the heat death of the universe.