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Mr. Quakers makes his first appearance, acting as DJ for the day. Read
up on Quacker's previous adventures
here,
here,
here,
and here.
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Weather update, taken from the TV scroll (which is also broadcast on
the local interweb).
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Tape tower! You got your white (duct) tape, aluminum tape (conductive
and non-conductive), mylar tape, masking tape, kapton
tape, caution tape, packing tape, self-vulcanizing tape and electrical
tape. I forgot to include teflon tape in the tower. See a previous attempt in Palestine.
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Ivan the Terra Bus comes to pick us up. With the arrival of the second
BLAST team, as well as the first members of ANITA (one of the other
balloon experiments in Antarctica this year) and more CSBF personnel, we are now more
than 20 travelling to the LDB base and can no longer fit in two
vans. Ivan is much slower than the vans, giving us more time to
enjoy the scenery (and eventually more sleep, once we get tired of the
scenery).
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Boarding Ivan.
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Scenery.
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Chris's snow school, as seen from the road on our drive in to LDB this
morning. I'm
glad I didn't have to sleep out there last night.
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Party in the BLAST highbay! Don, Marco, Enzo and Marie get right down
to work.
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Everybody (except me) at work.
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Aligning the optics box. Check out the sweet new green holographic
laser!
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