cheb wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:03 am
Are you going to or from civilisation?
That's a philosophical question, I always feel like there are few things in the UK that are an improvement on anywhere else in the world.
I love the UK and we intend to spend the majority of the rest of our lives living in England, but it's disheartening to see it slowly sliding away.
You're not flying into my local airport therefore away from IMO.
cheb wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:39 am
You're not flying into my local airport therefore away from IMO.
I suppose I could say the same, our house in the UK is in a beautiful little village, it's about as good as it gets IMHO, but you don't have to go far to find all that unpleasant about the UK. In fact you only have to go about 100yds to find a nasty pothole that will ruin an alloy wheel.
Got a fancy new add on for the equally fancy microscope at work. Laser spectroscopy which tells the elemental composition of a point. Single click and you know what something's made of.
Already confirmed my colleague's gold plated watch errrr....isn't. My Zirconium wedding ring is as advertised though
Potassium and Sodium must surely be sweat residue? Not sure where the silicon comes into it.
Off to look up common alloying elements for Zirconium!
XRF is cool cause it can tell you compounds rather than just elements. This thing can't tell the difference between testosterone and polystyrene. They're both just mixtures of mostly hydrogen, oxygen and carbon.
Life has got much simpler eh? Handheld scanners etc. I used to have to prep things by sputtering carbon on them and subject them to vacuum in a Scanning Electron Microscope.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
This focus stacking microscope replaces much of SEM. The wonderful thing about SEM is the high depth of field, you're often not actually interested about being super zoomed in.
This thing just takes 100 photos and moves the sample between each shot, then stitches it all together to make a high depth of field optical photo. Marvellous stuff.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:48 pm
This focus stacking microscope replaces much of SEM. The wonderful thing about SEM is the high depth of field, you're often not actually interested about being super zoomed in.
This thing just takes 100 photos and moves the sample between each shot, then stitches it all together to make a high depth of field optical photo. Marvellous stuff.
Also means you get full colour.
With the SEM we could do stuff like analyse over the surface of a '3D' component looking at the composition of surface deposits on wear patterns sort of thing. It was good for metals. Took a bit of calibrating but it was pretty neat for the time.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
The microscope can do a 3D surface profile and then 'sweep' across with the laser spectroscopy, therefore giving you a 3D contour map with composition at every point.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:33 pm
The microscope can do a 3D surface profile and then 'sweep' across with the laser spectroscopy, therefore giving you a 3D contour map with composition at every point.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:33 pm
Tis the plan with this add on
The microscope can do a 3D surface profile and then 'sweep' across with the laser spectroscopy, therefore giving you a 3D contour map with composition at every point.
2024 mate. 2024
Well, yeah, you noobs have all the gear....we were doing it in the 80s.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:33 pm
The microscope can do a 3D surface profile and then 'sweep' across with the laser spectroscopy, therefore giving you a 3D contour map with composition at every point.
Emirates business class is nice ...
I remember it well
That's First Class bud, the bathroom is bigger than the bathroom in my first house
I remember the first class booths being bigger than that - and with a bigger screen. Maybe time has made me forget. As you say the bathroom was something else - as were the really annoying air staff. "Would sir like to eat now?" "~erm , no, I'm okay - its a 9 hr flight, I'll eat later". And then , every 15 minutes some would ask you if you wanted to eat !!
The lounge in Dubai is also very nice - but filled with a hard to explain large no of kids.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:33 pm
The microscope can do a 3D surface profile and then 'sweep' across with the laser spectroscopy, therefore giving you a 3D contour map with composition at every point.
2024 mate. 2024
iPhone 20 is already scheduled to do this
This will still work in 2 year's time though
Yours is probably mains, no battery to die,and no enforced (performance limiting) upgrades
Emirates business class is nice ...
I remember it well
That's First Class bud, the bathroom is bigger than the bathroom in my first house
I remember the first class booths being bigger than that - and with a bigger screen. Maybe time has made me forget. As you say the bathroom was something else - as were the really annoying air staff. "Would sir like to eat now?" "~erm , no, I'm okay - its a 9 hr flight, I'll eat later". And then , every 15 minutes some would ask you if you wanted to eat !!
The lounge in Dubai is also very nice - but filled with a hard to explain large no of kids.
Last time I was in Dubai the airport was basic, you had to walk from the plane to the terminal. Breakfast was nice. On the way back (from Singapore/Malaysia) a military gentleman gestured with his gun that I simply must put my camera through the X-ray scanner and I bought the cheapest bottle of Jack Daniels ever. We had to disembark there on the way out to spend a few hours as the crew had done their hours (fog, crews and planes and schedules all over the place) not sure why on the way back. I do remember the 2 of us had the whole tail section of a 747 to ourselves and had a steak breakfast.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
