Zach forwards some good news for once: Michigan State landed a government deal to host a 550 million dollar research facility.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams would be at least 1,000 times more powerful than the machines now running at MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. In some cases, 100,000 times more. It will be used to provide intense beams of rare isotopes for researchers which will lay the groundwork for study in a number of fields, including treating cancer and providing technology for border security.
Border security? That sounds troubling. They better not try to keep me from getting to the Ramada in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Also, how does a half a billion dollar facility only get staffed by 300 people? Michigan needs jobs.
indeed, indeed 
December 11, 2008 at 1:21 pm |
more: http://www.energy.gov/news/6794.htm
December 11, 2008 at 1:23 pm |
i dont get how it will create things to improve border security? that mean were gonna have like radio beams as ID tags in us? crazy stuff.
good for the university. and state
December 11, 2008 at 1:24 pm |
wait, sault ste. marie michigan?
http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=12960
i’m thinking of the place with the indoor/outdoor waterslide that was like the mecca for all youth hockey players. where was that again?
December 11, 2008 at 1:25 pm |
here’s some technology we can use:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/wearable-toy-piano-makes-music-looks-good-doing-it/
December 11, 2008 at 2:21 pm |
That ramada was in Canada, and yes there was no better place for hockey players aged 8-14.
In what still may have been a collective fantasy that 15 hockey players managed to create for themselves we once stayed there at the same time that some canadian modeling agency was holding a talent search. I don’t think a better circumstance could have been imagined for a bunch of 14 year olds.
December 11, 2008 at 3:30 pm |
what about that time we were at a hotel mall when linedancing was happening? come on, who needs models?