[HN Gopher] Notes on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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       Notes on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
        
       Author : whatrocks
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-05-27 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (charlieharrington.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (charlieharrington.com)
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | Ah, yes. The linear accelerator built directly across one of the
       | most active faults in the world.
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       | Stanford has some very nice toys, though.
        
       | _a_a_a_ wrote:
       | 76MB web page.
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       | 'ducts.jpg' is 4,000 x 3,000 pix (why?). 3.2 meg of JS.
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       | Come on, author
        
       | bhickey wrote:
       | In 1971 SLAC was the target of a bomb attack.
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       | https://www.slac.stanford.edu/vault/pubvault/news19701971/sl...
        
         | haneefmubarak wrote:
         | Do you perchance know if they ever caught the perpetrators or
         | discovered their motives? A quick Google doesn't seem to show
         | much and the article didn't seem to have details either
        
           | rightbyte wrote:
           | Given how universities deal with lab security, I would not be
           | suprised if the dynamite was stolen SLAC dynamite to be used
           | on some fishing trip being hidden somewhere that got hot ...
        
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