Where DL doesn't go...yet....

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussions' started by -kevin-, Aug 28, 2010.

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  1. -kevin-

    -kevin- Resident Redneck

  2. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    Thinks for pointing out what I'm missing...lol. Those facility’s look great and like a lot of fun. Was it me or did the kids at Carnegie Mellon look 12 years old?
     
  3. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    For sheer scale and audacity, it's hard to beat the Mother of all Microscopes near Stanford. (It's designed to image events on the quantum scale.) See this thread:

    http://forums.degreeinfo.com/off-topic-discussions/30764-mother-all-microscopes.html

    For pure sexiness, I like the National Test Pilot School. Their amazing labs have students putting multiple aircraft types through extreme maneuvers, ranging from rotary-wing helicopters to supersonic jets. Photos here:

    http://www.sci.fi/~fta/drakens.htm

    I also like Worcester Polytechnic's fire engineering program. They experiment with firefighting techniques, test fire-resistant materials, study fire-dynamics in different kinds of structures, and investigate things like exotic chemical fires and fires in unusual places like submarines. This school offers a DL masters for firefighters, but the cool labs are back there in Massachusetts.

    http://www.wpi.edu/academics/Depts/Fire/

    And anyone who has watched 'Mythbusters' on Discovery Channel knows about New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. They are really into blowing things up and operate a laboratory that researches improvised explosives that attracts military and anti-terrorism types. The school has a very-cool rocket-sled at its desert research site that the Mythbusters used to propel a giant steel knife at almost the speed of sound to slice a car (including the engine block) into two halves. There was an episode where they were making diamonds with high-explosives and another where they used the rocket-sled to see how flat they could crush a compact car in a (really) high-speed collision.

    And there's San Francisco's own California-approved Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. People can use their imagination with that one.
     
  4. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef



    LOVED that link!! I sent it to my 16 and 12 year old sons, who are both sure that college is the most serious and boring idea EVER forced upon a person. <eye roll>
     

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