Over the thousands of users on this site, we all perform a variety of different jobs to pay the bills. Lets see a cool photo of the things you do day to day.

He's mine:
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Ahh, there nothing like the smell of plasma in the morning!

I get a chance to do a lot of pretty cool work. This is one of my favorites.

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I was going to post the wasteland that is my cube but decided it really wasn't as funny as I thought it was.
It's actually pretty sad.
I'm gonna go clean now.

samuraijack, what is it you do that they had to yank your photo out? I just see something that reads "Redacted under security code....."

Hmmm...I can still see it. If they were redacting me they would have notified me that they were placing a c censor on my account. But Like I said, I can still see them. Must be your ISP.

Here is a picture of the Server Room with all the lights off. I love this. Its like Star Wars...



This is one of my favorites. This is a Full Auto 100mm SEM cannon for range targeting...Check out that muzzle flash!




This is a picture of our control center for the Predator Program. At first I criticized the engineers for the Pseudo-Bridge design, but it turned out to be quite effective. Those wrap around monitors are the bee's knees for movies during upgrade cycles.



and this is my absolute favorite! This is the prototype MESON cannon firing at a target SCUD missile with no payload. Talk about Fear of God! That's me next to the Generators, in case you didn't recognize me. Smile!

LOL whoopsie.

You had better get down to your security officer and get yourself some autherisation man .

I think your the only one who sees them i'm just getting the security message.

as far as interesting images go i aint got jack. exept maybe a shot of my coworkers cleavage! but i aint even gonna attempt to get a pic of that

Hehe, SJ, looks like "all" the pictures I'm "allowed" to post of what I used to do in the Air Force...

Wait, I have Clearance, why can't I see them?

yeah sam, this is all I get. Here on Comcast and Verizon @ work.
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It's a shame..... I would love to see that. I would take pictures of our beowulf cluster (super computer) but I do think I could get in trouble for that one. Plus it's not that super. It's around 192 cores. Sounds impressive but really is not. Just looks like 24 computers sitting on a cheap shelf, all connected via 10Gbps fiber.

SECURITY BREACH....CODE RED!!

SJ, it looks like your online privileges may have been compromised.

BTW...here's my share.

I could post some pics from band camp.

Oh wait, maybe not. What age *DO* they have to be?

Im sorry...Im being a rascal.

Its a joke.


The monitoring they have on me is much more subtle.

I thought you figured out how to remove that without rupturing your . . . ummm . . . maybe I've said too much?

Wait . . . I hear someone coming . . .

Was that the snick of a magazine being slammed home?

Oh no, it's th

I would be interested in the one with the flute

Here's another one. This is going to be the vacuum chamber we are going to use for one of our experiments.
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And yes, thats a 6ft ladder just behind it. (for scale)

Just add Cavorite!

After doing this

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I now do this

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because of this

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By my count that post is worth exactly 3000 words plus a dime.

I can't take pictures, but I do get to see some of this while I am at work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor - We're picking up the work load for a lot of maintenance on these babies so I get to see them from time to time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKRGDCR28g0 -Watching this thing live fire is beyond impressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon - Sorties fly almost every day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II - Haven't seen one of these in person, but we're scheduled to get a whole squadron or two of them in the next few years. SWEET!
It's not directly related to my job, but is a pretty cool side benefit.

Very interesting! Not enough unnecessary cabling for a movie set. Must be a real project. What's it supposed to do after you suck out all the air? (besides fail to implode)

Well cant go into great detail at this time, but it is going to be used for a nuclear fusion experiment. Our first test over the next few years most likely wont yield a significant reaction, however it's going to be used a proof of concept. If we get the numbers we are hoping for, we can then get more money to continue research with the possibility of creating a fusion reaction with in the next decade or so. And if we're really good, we'll get break even (were you get more power out than you put in). This will mean good bye Mr.Oil and Ms.Coal, and hello clean renewable fusion!

why are there so many inlets/outlets on the thing?

the "inlets/outlets" are just standard vacuum ports. The ball is super air tight (can pump down to 1 ten billionth of an atmosphere, or 1e-7 Torr for the science buffs). And to access the insides of the chamber, you bolt what ever your want to the ports, ensuring to create a good seal. We are using a kind of plasma rail gun to shoot plasma into the core of the tank using the smaller ports, while our diagnostics will go on the big ports. We will have 60 guns mounted spherically around the chamber in a c60 configuration (same as a soccer ball), all firing in to the center. If we're good, the shear speed and mass of the plasma as all 60 plasma jets are trying to squeeze themselves into the center of the chamber will cause the plasma to get so dense, and so hot that it will begin to create fusion much like how the sun does it. So in a way, we are making a very tiny, short lived sun. But while the sun uses gravity to keep things hot and dense, we can only do it by crushing plasma with plasma. So we'll have a sun, weighing about a gram, that lasts for less than a millionth of a second, before it cools and dies (sorry, no super-nova, no big bang, no black holes after, just a lonely fizzle)

But we dont think that 60 will be enough to create enough heat and pressure. 60 guns is small cookies compared to what we have in store. If all goes good. And the 60 guns give us data numbers we want to see, the next step is to build a bigger sphere with upwards of 300-800 guns. Then thats when we will start getting serious outputs. Enough to bring the possibility of making usable power into view.

now THAT sounds like a cool job .

However I work for an oil company, so please take your sweet time with this project .

The idea of generating more power than you put in is fascinating, and if it is ever achieved it will make such a huge impact on almost every part of our lives. Then the next hurdle will be, who wants the Frankenstein'ed Epcot center in their back yard? I am of the opinion that if it does something that cool I could care less what it looked like. others (probably mostly of the female variety) would want you to dress it up and put a bow in or something.

Well before people jump me by saying that it is impossible for any device to put out more energy than what was put in.... We are using a fuel. So the energy thats put in, is used to release the energy in the fuel (the energy out). Our fuel is a form of hydrogen, and the by product is something that is naturally in our atmosphere, a form of helium. This byproduct will be released into the air, float way up high, then the sun will convert it back into the fuel we use. (sorry for the vagueness of the description, late for a meeting..)

interesting...so it's got the renewability of solar power without the associated wimpiness?

Well.....kinda...... hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements found in the universe, so there really isnt any threat of it running out any time soon. If we were to use say sea water to harvest the hydrogen, then we would have hundreds of thousands of years worth of energy on tap. Hey look at the sun, yes it's many times larger than the earth, but it has been running for billions of years. And what were are doing is no different that the way the sun does it.

See it's on the lines as a nuclear reactor. They both harness the nuclear energy. However with fission, it's easy b/c the radio-active properties of uranium and plutonium basically do the work for you. When you use hydrogen, it's up to you to make the necessary energy to create the nuclear reaction. Also it is much safer. If there is any issue, the reaction can be stopped within the matter of micro seconds. Also if there is a material spill of some kind, there is no threat of radiation poisoning of any kind. So it would basically be the best form of energy up till now.

Hey man, it's coming. If we dont do it, someone else will. Chances are if you get to enjoy fusion energy in your life time, it might not be for much of your life. Fusion is still a ways off, but it's coming quick. If I had to guess, I'd say maybe 30-40 years before it's in the main stream. Maybe 10-15 before it's able to be ran continuously in a lab.

hey thanks for reminding me I'm gonna die (j/k)

it will be interesting to see all the new innovations to combat our growing energy demands in the next few decades.

Hey, I'm going to live forever or die trying.

You thought we had an explosion of technologies in the past 2 decades, give it another 2, it'll make todays technology seem like a Apple IIGS, without the upgraded external 5" floppy drive