Was I really this much of a geek?

[Almighty Colin]

I guess so.

http://linkification.com/linked/quantum_mechanic.JPG

That's the accelerator they let us undergrads smash atoms with.

[MissEve]

That is a cool pic. You will need to post the one with the glasses and grandpa sweater to confirm the geekdom.

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by MissEve@Jan 29 2005, 05:16 AM
That is a cool pic. You will need to post the one with the glasses and grandpa sweater to confirm the geekdom.
You know way too much. :zoinks:

[grimm]

Originally posted by Almighty Colin@Jan 29 2005, 02:01 AM
I guess so.

http://linkification.com/linked/quantum_mechanic.JPG

That's the accelerator they let us undergrads smash atoms with.
was oppehmeimer on a coffee break, old man?;)

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by grimm@Jan 29 2005, 06:40 AM
was oppehmeimer on a coffee break, old man?;)
Was actually recreating Rutherford's experiment that day. At some point, the alarm that detected too many radioactive particles went off and I had to run outta there. I was never that great in the lab. Always preferred pen and paper.

[grimm]

gold foil standard for "viewing" particles released after the collision of alpha particles. Did the same stuff in college.

super colliders are cool. I liked the EM telescope better.

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by grimm@Jan 29 2005, 06:55 AM
gold foil standard for "viewing" particles released after the collision of alpha particles. Did the same stuff in college.

super colliders are cool. I liked the EM telescope better.
Was your major physics?

I didn't get to play with one of those :-(

[grimm]

CS Engineering and Physics, Astronomy Minor (could have completed the major.) History, Chemistry minor.

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by grimm@Jan 29 2005, 07:00 AM
CS Engineering and Physics, Astronomy Minor (could have completed the major.) History, Chemistry minor.
Geek.

How the hell didn't I know that after all these years?

[grimm]

Failure to use the scientific method will bite you in the ass:)

seriously, no idea.

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by grimm@Jan 29 2005, 07:04 AM
Failure to use the scientific method will bite you in the ass:)

seriously, no idea.
Oh, I knew it was something nerdy. :-P

[grimm]

i've learned to cope:)

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by grimm@Jan 29 2005, 07:28 AM
i've learned to cope:)
Success has that effect.

[grimm]

being insane also helps

:blink:

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by grimm@Jan 29 2005, 07:38 AM
being insane also helps

:blink:
no comment

[grimm]

probably for the best

[Nickatilynx]

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.


:)

[Pornwolf]

You were dressing pretty hip for 1952. Were you a beatnik or something?

[Vick]

That picture is classic!!!

B)

[Mike AI]

Grimm is a smart mother fucker - glad he is my partner!!

:rokk:

[slavdogg]

that looks like a pic from 60s or 70s
COlin i didnt know you were that old :)

[Almighty Colin]

The pic is 1994. Old machine and old black and white cam the lab instructor had.

[Mike AI]

Originally posted by Almighty Colin@Jan 30 2005, 06:08 AM
The pic is 1994. Old machine and old black and white cam the lab instructor had.
B&W Cam or film?

<_<

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by Mike AI+Jan 30 2005, 11:34 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mike AI @ Jan 30 2005, 11:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Almighty Colin@Jan 30 2005, 06:08 AM
The pic is 1994. Old machine and old black and white cam the lab instructor had.
B&W Cam or film?

<_< [/b][/quote]
Yeah, film. It was an old Polaroid instant camera.

[grimm]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jan 29 2005, 09:22 AM
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.


:)
Bobby Oppenheimer was a smart man;) that group got to be the hand of god, and sword of damacles all in one. If you read their journals, writings, etc. after the Atom was split.. there is a sad, somber, almost melanholy guilt, a philosophy on man weighted down by anguish and the magnitude of what happened. Einstein was never the same, Neither was Oppenheimer, nor Feyman

[grimm]

Originally posted by Almighty Colin+Jan 30 2005, 08:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Almighty Colin @ Jan 30 2005, 08:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Mike AI@Jan 30 2005, 11:34 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Almighty Colin@Jan 30 2005, 06:08 AM
The pic is 1994. Old machine and old black and white cam the lab instructor had.
B&W Cam or film?

<_<
Yeah, film. It was an old Polaroid instant camera. [/b][/quote]
model release? nice film, i expect charlie chaplain to tap dance across it at any moment:)

[grimm]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Jan 29 2005, 11:43 PM
Grimm is a smart mother fucker - glad he is my partner!!

:rokk:
its not my fault you got all the looks in the family;)

[Jesse_DD]

The simple answer to your original question is a resounding - YES!

:biglaugh:

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by Jesse_DD@Jan 31 2005, 10:20 AM
The simple answer to your original question is a resounding - YES!

:biglaugh:
I'm visiting mom's for a week. I have plenty of ammunition to fire back with (looks evilly at the picture albums).

[Jesse_DD]

I was always pretty!

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by Jesse_DD@Jan 31 2005, 10:38 AM
I was always pretty!
Pretty 80s!

[Dravyk]

Looks like the set of Dr. Who.

... Damn they had some bad sets and (cough) special effects!

Seriously though, love the pic!!!