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deermen (1938) 2010-02-14 13:52

merhaba
etkili bir çalışma eline sağlık
selamlarımla.

Wandering_Dan (3449) 2010-02-14 16:26

Merhaba, Bulent -

I suppose you could call this a chamber of a heart - a banker's heart! Actually, I do find a lot of abstract beauty here; kind of a cross between a whale and a bent saxophone.

Best,
Dan

PS: I did not see the face in the snow until you pointed it out. I had another look at the mountain this morning (before heading to Santa Fe, where I am now) and it's there, but you kind of have to believe it.

serp2000 (47063) 2010-02-14 22:47

Hmm, impressive sculpture, Bulent,
It reminds me any construction from fantastic Hollywood movie. Well seen!
Serghei

Leconte (5795) 2010-02-15 8:27

Hello Bulent,

I turned around to find this picture without saying anything to this machine, which at the opening of the picture seemed to resemble a musical instrument of a new genre! Your note is very instructive about the "elegant experiments",
in France, we have discovered that the government has decided to authorize by order the recycling of metals, plastics and rubble from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in order to use in the manufacture of cement and steel. This decree will recycle millions of tons of radioactive waste, including the nuclear industry will not know what to do (eg what is happening with the dismantling of the central Brennilis, Brittany). Constituting an exception to the prohibition order in 2002 banning the recycling of nuclear waste in the building products and consumer goods, this decree will help disseminate the market for everyday consumer items containing radioactive materials low. It will also bikes, cars, houses, etc., made with materials from the recycling.
what do you think of that?

best regards,
Valerie.

rlrad (1845) 2010-02-15 15:59

Hello Bulent,

I was staring at this contraption for a long period last night, in between glances at the Olympic games, trying to figure out just how this was manufactured and how on earth someone decided this is the mathematical shape of plasma. Well, that is why you are the physicist and I am the lowly computer geek. It is astounding. I assume the tubes are for chilled water - we used a similar system for keeping computers and display equipment cool when I was in the Navy. It was a colossal mess when one developed a pin-hole internally to some equipment, but for the most part it worked very well. As for the rest, I am content to consider it an abstract sculpture as you state.

I hope you rocket scientists figure out this fusion stuff so we can stop paying so much for gas!

Anyway, your nuclear lesson served to remind me that I should have gone with that nuclear power program the Navy offered me way back when I was even more ignorant and turned them down.

Cool photo, nice group shot in the workshop, too. It must be interesting to be surrounded by so much brain power. You'd hate my job - I'm surrounded by managers and am one!

Anyway, tremendous post, you showed us something of the world that not many of us will ever get the chance to see in person. And even fewer of us understand it.

Regards,
Reed

jhm (211736) 2010-02-16 2:50

Hello Dear Bulent,

This type pictures is not usual in your gallery.
Indeed great abstract mood.
Very well composition and good presentation.

Best regards,
John

JCG (35153) 2010-02-17 6:59

Hello Bülent,

They knew to be distinguished the twin brothers on the group photograph in WS !!! Even if I did not understand all your talk, here is a note, once more, interesting and illustrated well by the image. Subject which I think would certainly have interested my sister who made her higher learning, until the Doctorate, in physics… Indeed even if this “work of art” is not very aesthetic, I admire these scientists who created this complex machine for technological advance.

Very instructive, thank you Bülent.

With all my friendships and with soon,

Jean-Charles

PS: Thank you also for your appreciation on my last photograph.

leonorkuhn (16237) 2010-02-21 9:49

Hi my friend Bülent,

We simply not experts, we can only understand the beauty of this apparatus, with its sleek and curious format. But most important is the usefulness of it in conducting research of high level. Congratulations for you and your group devoted to science.

Have a nice week
Leonor

Angshu (56760) 2010-02-28 6:50

Dear Professor 'A'
I do think we see you at the extreme right of the group photo...Usd 1 mio for this segmet is a staggering price for this piece of scientific 'art'...looks at first glance like an overgrown bugle, or maybe a chamber of a heart...an extraordinary TE post
With Warmest Regards
Angshuman

emjleclercq (15778) 2010-03-02 13:04

Seeing the different little tubes riveted to the structure, then starting to read your note, I understood quickly that the purpose of this "sculpture" is more scientical than artistical. And I got the confirmation in your last paragraph. But this makes for an unusual, and rarely seen, device. It looks like a mix between a muscial instrument and the exhaust pipe of a rocket, but I hope something vert clever comes out of it!

All the best,

Emmanuel

Urs (14082) 2010-05-04 22:36

Hi Bulent

Very interesting POV, it takes a bit time to see what it is all about. Of course it is a very modern sculpture and as you explain in your note it is called elegant sculpture. The ultimate source of energy can be explained as you did, but I think to use in - for example - the automotive industry will take a long time. Well done

Thanks for your critique of my smoker shot from Penang. What is alarming is the latest trend that Malaysian women increasingly start smoking. Moreover there is the Chinese style peer pressure, that you have to smoke to be a man. Personally I stopped smoking more then 30 years ago, I think it was 1980 or so. Before that I chain smoked 60 sticks a day! Nowadays I cannot stand smoke.

When I took this picture it was more humid then hot. Dry hotness is much more difficult to take then wet hotness. The latter is the case in this part of the world. This feeling is difficult to explain, but it follows physical principles. Just imaging to be in a real desert and then to be somewhere in South East Asia in the jungle. Besides sweating is the natural air-condition system, what is supposed to cool down the body

Best regards
Urs