utterly random picture thread.

[Wossname]

It's lucky that turbulence doesn't affect 1st class - those little towels would be all over the place.

[Skub]

It's lucky that turbulence doesn't affect 1st class - those little towels would be all over the place.

Reusable tampons.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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!

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[MrLongbeard]

Hehe, we play silly buggers whenever we can get the key to the XRF scanner and the radiation H&S nazi isn't in the building

[Mr. Dazzle]

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.

Also costs 10 times more for that add on.

[Count Steer]

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.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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.

[Count Steer]

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.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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

[Horse]

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

[Count Steer]

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.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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

[Mr Moofo]

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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.

[Horse]

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

[Count Steer]

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.

[Count Steer]

I used to have access to those 'special' lounges but the people in them made my skin crawl. They were always tappity tapping at their laptops, feeding their faces and making phone calls, or, as said, escorting a brood. It wasn't relaxing. Wife used to get the real deal too (to the USA usually) , Range Rover pick up from home, fast track at the airport etc. Not that she ever looked down her nose at me. No sirree.

[Mr. Dazzle]

One perk of flying to Germany to visit the mothership...

They've got a hell of a fleet of cars they can pick you up in Never have to worry about a hire car either

[Count Steer]

One perk of flying to Germany to visit the mothership...

They've got a hell of a fleet of cars they can pick you up in Never have to worry about a hire car either

Wife used to get that too. Chauffeured in the usual 'S' Class at warp speed from Frankfurt to Weinheim. Not that she reminded me very often. It's a bugger when your stellar career is eclipsed by the missus.

[Yorick]

Nice day out in La Santa. The rocks get really warm in the sun

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[Taipan]

Nice day out in La Santa. The rocks get really warm in the sun

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And the winner of Pebble Beach of the Year Award goes to...



You got sandy beaches too right?