• Question: what is the coolest/best kit you have been able to use?

    Asked by TheJUDEmistro to Yetty, Tom, Gina, Chris on 22 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Christopher Bullock

      Christopher Bullock answered on 22 Jun 2017:

      I’ve been lucky to be able to use some pretty advanced pieces of scientific kit (worth an awful lot of money) including electron microscopes and machines for chemical and cellular analysis. The coolest has probably been the UK’s Synchotron light source, called Diamond, this is a particle accelerator (the ring is probably half a mile in diameter) in Oxfordshire that enables you do to very accurate imaging of very small things.

    • Photo: Tom Rooney

      Tom Rooney answered on 22 Jun 2017:

      I can’t out-do chris on that tech… awesome!
      But soon after my apprenticeship had finished I was put in sole charge of a multi-million pound missile system on a warship… that was pretty cool. It fired super-sonic surface to air missiles designed to take out other super-sonic missiles. In my career I fired many, in one memorable day I got to fire 6!!! At over £100K each the missiles were not cheap, so it was a real privilege to shoot off half a dozen in the space of a few hours.
      Nowadays the tech I play with is not as dramatic but is pretty cool, we can track a submersible vehicle down to over 12km underwater with amazing precision. Imagine dangling a small weight on a piece of cotton to the bottom of a swimming pool and having to place it on a tiny dot… one of the systems I train people in can do that with a margin of error less than the thickness of the cotton thread (scaled up obviously). We have lots more amazing underwater toys besides, and they are all really cool!!

    • Photo: Yetunde Kolawole

      Yetunde Kolawole answered on 22 Jun 2017:

      Tom and Chris have used pretty cool kits, my most expensive will probably be an Ericsson mobile switch center that controls a Base station.

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