14 thoughts on “Cartoon history of a joke company

  1. I did the tour once before, about 20 years ago. I hope I'm able to climb the ladder up into the big'n again.
    I wish I had gone to their satellite installation, [CARMA,] before the nearsighted gummint pulled their funding.

  2. I did, but just cell phone shots. Hard to drag the big Canon around anymore.
    Up in the framework. mThere's 4 miles of that pipe welded together.
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    These are from the now defunct CARMA facility. Cal Berkeley would like to sell them to you for $1 each.
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  3. Here's one of the mates to the one your friends toured in TX, part of the Very Long Baseline Array:
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    It's not part of the Caltech installation, and wasn't open to visit.

    Looking up at the 40m from the ground:
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  4. Yes.

    Inside the control room, one of the scientists was showing a movie of last year's eclipse. He asked everyone if they got to see it, and I said no. He seemed surprised, then I told him it was raining that day. He chuckled a bit, and revealed that he had only watched it from inside his cave there.

  5. It6's awesome up there. You should try to set aside enough time to get acclimated to the altitude, and do some hiking around. Coming from sea level, 12K+ can seriously kick your ass.

  6. His car parked outside told me all I needed to know about that. It was a Porsche Cayman S, coated in dirt and caked-on mud, with the windows down on a dusty day. I would never drive my car out to that site, let alone leave it outside all day on a dirt lot!

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