We were lucky enough to be given a tour of the SPRUCE Project in the Chippewa National Forest, North of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Our tour guide was W. Robert Nettles IV, SPRUCE Project Operations Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . I went into the site fueled primarily by my lifetime of interest in the natural environment; as well as my interest from volunteering as a park ranger in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. However, by the time I was done, my interest in technology, from over 10 years as an IT professional, was thoroughly peaked! Definitely off the "beaten path," in a spruce bog in Northern Minnesota, this site boasts an incredible array of scientific equipment that is supported by an amazing technological infrastructure! There are control sites and some of the chambers have added heat, carbon dioxide, or both. A lot of equipment and experimental testing goes on 24/7, 365 days per year. These guys know their stuff. The 10 chambers are connected ...
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With the time travel option I will never be late for work either.
In fact I may just keep traveling back to the previous Friday
and forget about work altogether.
When the tank is almost empty I will go back in time and swap
cubes with past LDM just when he is done filling it.
I will always have fuel in the tank!
Of course past LDM will be forever filling the cube,
so that is kind of a raw deal for him.
That's OK , I never liked past LDM anyway. He is always
doing stupid things that I have to answer for.