Thursday, May 5, 2016

You're Not Going To Think What Just Happened

So, I just had a pretty interesting semester here at LCC pretty far, with one of my classes being a 12 week course made up mostly of field trips to various factories including GM, as well as the down right most fascinating factory that I have ever heard of, Niowave, which is situated somewhere way out there and is an old, torn down school building. That place is known for conducting experiments using various radiation which is passed through the ground. They also have a clean proof area in which they produce components and is "free of dust", rated as a class 100 clean room. The vacuum chambers inside of the nuclear components for nuclear accelerators have to be rated to an atmospheric pressure of 10^-27 TER, which is just meant to simulate the conditions of space. The insulation needs to be composed of material that reflects as much radiation as possible, including infrared waves. In order to do that, one of the processes that they have implemented is the use of extracting all of the oxygen from the copper that goes into making the components. They require an extremely high standard for how pure the water must be that they use. They also use cryonics and thee gas that they use, Helium, is even colder than dry ice. They have helped in cancer prevention, and are also working with other companies on a project to make a new weapon that would rely on radiation in the form of a laser, or perhaps a beam. We won't see those kinds of weapons any time soon. The laser should be completed sometime around 2020 or so. And it is to be made out of something like Gamma Rays. I can talk a slight amount about the science behind this next time.
Not only did I take my final exam early...I also got the chance to take the ASME certification test just a moment ago!!!! Thank goodness that the exam came early, or else I would have paid something like 50 or more to pass this exam, so that I could some day receive a pay raise when I find myself a place to work at. On the other side, however, I wasn't expecting to take this in class. In other words, I didn't study at all for this. Yet it seemed easier than the exams in general, on which I received an average of 70 or so percent. In order to pass the certificatio, I will need to achieve 75 percent. I would say that it was roughly the same as the midterms, which is pretty crazy given the difference between significance in the tests. That time around I achieved about 80 percent, so yeah... maybe, just maybe it could of been enough to make it.

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