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The Say of the Week
By Tommaso Dorigo | July 23rd 2009 02:17 PM | 3 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Tommaso Dorigo

I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at CERN and the CDF experiment at Fermilab. In my spare time I play chess, abuse the piano, and aim my dobson telescope at... Full Bio

"Other people's data ntuples are a bit like their genitals. You may occasionally be allowed to play with them, but you should not expect to be granted unhindered access."

Unknown (the previous attribution to M. F. is fallacious)

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lumidek's picture
We've had some discussions about the sexual revolution planned by her with Melissa but she has never told me that it included the playing. I don't necessarily claim that it would be interesting for me - but nevertheless, I still think it's fair to say that this unequal treatment is a form of discrimination against the conservatives at Harvard. ;-)

Luboš Motl | 07/24/09 | 00:53 AM
I am in China, after observing eclipse on July 22. My photographic "data" was corrupted by fogged lenses (due to moisture & cold temps at 15,000 ft). I'm always leery about other people's data, you don't how reliable it is.

I observed the eclipse in Eastern Tibetan Plateau @15,000 ft, with Gongga Shan (22,800 ft Everest like peak) in foreground:

http://www.eclipse-chaser.com/2009/index.html

I measured a light & temperature profile from 1st to 4th contact. I met a Polish group observing nearby, including an atomic scientist (Inst of Atomic Energy/Radiation Protection Measurements Lab/Otwock-Swierk, Poland)

The logistics of solar eclipse expedition (like Eddington in 1919) cannot be underestimated. Lots of equipment, & stress over weather. Seth Shostak/SETI & Glenn Schneider/U. of Arizona/Steward Observatory (chief instrument scientist for Hubble's WFPAC2) observed from Wuhan (which was compromised by clouds), & Jay Pasachoff (Harvard alumni, on sabbatical @Caltech) observed near Shanghai (also compromised by clouds). Many emails were exchanged amongst us (incl Dan Fischer, German science writer), trying to dodge the China monsoonal flow. In the end, I followed the move of Quanzhi Ye (meteorlogical student @Sun Yat Sen Univ) who went to Shangri-La (100km west of Daocheng), in Eastern Tibetan Plateau. I ended up at his original site (which he abandoned), Zimei Pass @15,000 ft.

A friend of mine (who knows a Silicon Valley IPO) flew a private jet to Marshall Islands (site of Hydrogen Bomb testing) & got clear skies.

chimpanzee (not verified) | 07/26/09 | 06:20 AM
Nice one, Tommaso :)

Pietro (not verified) | 07/26/09 | 17:28 PM

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