[time-nuts] IFCS and a few other things

[Hal Murray]

magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org said:
> Friday was spectacular, as we where a few lucky to be bussed out the  LIGO
> detector, Livingston. Extremely fascinating hardware. It's  essentially a
> Michelson interferometer with 4 km arms. When you are  there you only see
> half of it, as the building half-way down blocks the  next half. ...

There is a book out: Black Hole Blues.  Good, not fantastic.

The author was on Science Friday shortly after the LIGO results were 
announced.  She was on PBS NewsHour Monday.
  http://www.wnyc.org/story/listening-in-on-the-black-hole-blues-the-soundtrac
k-of-the-universe/

The NSF press conference is on YouTube.  There were a lot of happy people, 
especially the head of NSF who had sunk a lot of money into the project.  I 
think it was the most expensive project NSF had ever funded.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE


> BTW, this brings me to DC:
> http://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/meetings/2016-05/

9:15 - 9:45
  GPS Spoofing & Jamming: Uncovering Vulnerability Truths & Myths
    Dr. Brad Parkinson, 1st Vice-Chair

In case you don't recognize the name, he was project manager for GPS.

Stanford has an Engineering Heroes program.
  http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/video-bradford-parkinson-gps-humanity
His talk is on YouTube.  I thought it was good.  May 2012
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6I6wFf-X_c
Not much time-nuttery, but interesting background on one of our favorite 
tools.


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