Today we visited ITT. Its an international corporation with a branch in Rochester where its imaging science hq is located. I found out that they're the ones who make the transmitters for all gps systems. They do a lot of work for the military and department of defense. They also made the mirrors on the hubble telescope and do a lot of work on the Chandra and a few others. Everything was essentially classified and they made sure you knew it. All over the walls were posters telling you to protect the secrets of the labs. It was pretty intense. We saw a lot of glass and the process in which the glass was pressurized into this honeycomb-type shape. On the way home we stopped at Dibellas for some tasty subs. We got back to cis and had some serious intern bonding over lunch. It was pretty funny.
When I got back to the lab, Bryan told me where I could find the orginal xray/inf files. Sadly, when we opened the folder that was supposed to have the inf files they were mia so I'll have to search them down. Jake printed out an 80 page packet and pointed out some tables that had Xray info. He explained how to do something with the flux and converting the units but naturally I was left confused and clueless. I decided that working on making the T-shirt would be better. So, Tom and I went to the second floor lab to use the macs up there. We ran in to Meghan who was working on the shirt too so we all collaborated to make one. It looks pretty good so far, Jakes face is embedded in a galaxy.
Meeting time soon...I'm looking forward to napping through it..
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