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It's always funny when the media talks about some scientific item and everyone gets freaked out about it...
One summer I worked at the particle accelerator out at UBC, Canada.. Worked with another guy to write code to auto-adjust the magnets to get the optimum particle stream as well as someother odds and ends.. Pretty damn boring actually given there's really nothing to see except the radiation warning signs etc. They did some cool stuff there though. Like they would create special isotope medication and then stick the vials in this vaccum tube that would fire off the medication to the hospital a couple miles away. Then there was this other room where a person with tumors etc. in the brain would have to get a face mold which would hold them completely immobile and they'd fire off particles into their skull which acted like little "depth charges" to destory the tumors.
Thing is.. I bet 99.9% of the people in the lower mainland don't even know it's there.
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