Guest appearances by: Dr. F. Stonedahl, Malik Thalji, Issac Schwantes, Dr. Prosise, Prospective Student #187 from Montana, Prospective Student's Father
Guest blogger (thanks to slow "not-it" reflexes): Dr. F. Stonedahl
Today was "The Big One". All of our lives have been spent training, building our skills, for this one day. Previous apparatus runs were but pale shadows of the glorious success that will be hailed at the completion of this ultimate apparatus experiment.
(Essentially, it's the same setup as before, but hopefully all the bugs have been worked out, and this will result in glorious CLEAN data, magnificent photographic evidence, no abnormalities of flow, etc..)
So... the time lapse camera was adjusted and started, the apparatus was started running with tap water for over an hour to get things settled down, then switched over to blue... Q measurements were taken at roughly ~15 minute intervals, and the EC meter was run continuously throughout, with periodic data downloads to prevent it from overrunning its (ridiculously small) storage limit.
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| Dr. S. Stonedahl and Caleb gaze in awe at the "Big One", as the clear water pushes the blue dye out. |
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| Meanwhile, Caleb spent much time entering data in spreadsheets, |
In other news, as a result of unfavorable weather and faulty air conditioning, and the inside room temperature rose to approximately 451 degrees Fahrenheit, and all of the lab notebooks had to be soaked with blue dye water to prevent spontaneous combustion. Ice buckets were also embraced, to help stave off heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and fiery death for as long as possible. The time is 6:06, and the apparatus has not finished running yet, and only time will tell whether all of the brave researchers will survive to the completion of the experiment. If you do not see a new blog post on this blog on Monday, assume the worst. In that contingency, please send someone to Lewis Hall to collect all of our valuable data, so that our contribution to science will be recognized, and our sacrifice will not be in vain.
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