Hi Sven,

So...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=manuka-honey-sl...

Fucking hippies at scietific american... god whats wrong with those people!

Love,

Tristan

Hi Sven,

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v467/n7318/nature-2010-10-21.html (only the first main feature, the rest is cool but not the current topic)

done reading that, ok good, so first DUDE, second ok, so what does this mean assume that the fathers lifestyle is change the genes in his sperm. It means DUDE, you can not only does that mean that your genes (through those on of switch things) change as a function of your life style, but that your pass those along to your childer so they are "pre addapted" to their inverment. That awesome!

love,

Tristan

Hi sven,

So, I just Emailed you this article, but then I found another one that I wanted to post, so welcome to a new blog segment, Tristan Gibers about science.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

The point is fairly basic. When you burn coal, you but a FUCK TONE OF SHIT INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, and because basically everything is radioactive (even your beer! look out your beer is trying to kill you!) that burning coal dumps a fair amount of radiation into the atmosphere. Now they are sort of doing an unfair thing here, which is that they are looking at coal ash released compared to shielded (not post earth quake melt down...) nuclear power. But you know. The point is we are burning lots of fossil fuels that have these radioactive isotopes in them and spewing them out into the world all the time, its not a big pulse of them, but I'm sure someone can (and probably has) done the math on how much Uranium gets aerosolized every year from coal but like, this isn't shutting down the coal industry, or sending the hippies to the store to buy radiation meds... or who knows, maybe it... fucking hippies!

love,

Tristan

p.s. sven I'm not trying to make you fear the world more, just you know its like the world is watching a plane crashing, and everyone gets worked up about flying, but you know driving is still more dangerous.

Hi Sven,

So our detectors run at like 270 milla Kelvin, and yes that’s fucking cold. They get there by first adding liquid nitrogen to the outer shields, the adding liquid helium to the inner chamber of the cryostat. The Helium then boils off and goes through the vapor cooled shield (we are basically using the Helium steam to cool a middle stage), inside of that is the liquid Helium stage. Inside of that is a pumped pot, which is a small reservoir of Liquid Helium that is hooked up to a vacuum pump, that pump lowers the pressure (in flight its just open to space, and I basically mean space, we are way up there) and there for temperature, and inside of that is a Helium 3 fridge which is a closed system that dumps its heat back up onto the Liquid helium stage. So we need 2 thing Liquid nitrogen and Liquid helium. Liquid nitrogen is cheap and easy to get check. Guess what we don’t have, because Raytheon forgot to order it (well fuck it up) Liquid Helium, so yeah we are dead in the water here. They are trying to steal some from the south pole (I think that gives you an idea of how disparate we are), but managed to fuck that one up. They are trying again today, but who knows, and the weather is supposed to go bad here, so we can’t even get the stuff from Christchurch if it ever makes it there, so we be fucked! Oh Oh and it gets better, it takes something like 10 days to  thermally cycle they cryostat, that is warm it up, fix something and then cool it back down, so we have a 2 week “OH FUCK” period built into our schedule, we are now 7 days behind, and counting, so things could get fun here if something goes wrong when we cool.

Love,

Tristan