JWE -> RE: DaBigBabes Release (9/3/2010 9:33:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach JWE, I have followed you going to some pretty neat places for fun times but I've been to China Lake and can't imagine anything nice to say about it, especially this time of year.[:D] What the hell is a LIDAR (inquiring minds want to know)? Me too! (I am sure that the response will be good and original....) Mac Not really original. Quite mundane actually. LIDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging; also called LADAR for Laser Detection and Ranging. In our case, it's an optical imaging system. It acquires and displays a 3D image of whatever you point it at. We came up with a bunch of tricks to make it much smaller, and operate in 'quasi' realtime. The prime contractor was doing a technology demonstrator at China Lake and Fort Irwin, and since we were the developer and licensor, got an invitation to watch the show; probably in case something went wrong .. crap always gotta run downhill. Yeah, China Lake suks, but they treated us real well. Fed us good and we had air conditioning in quarters. Only thing I hated was having to wear an international distress orange vest and one of those stupid orange hard hats. I whined, and bitched, and moaned, and pleaded, for a baseball cap like all the mil pukes were wearing, but .. no .. administrative regulations say that civilians must be protected in a military zone, and .. blah, blah, blah, blah. Vomit. Irwin was a real hell hole, whoever put NTC there deserves a major medal. They were real nice too. They did give me a kevlar pot to wear instead of that stupid orange hard hat .. hmmm, was pretty sweaty, but looked cool; my respect for the guys and gals who have wear them all the time just went way up. All in all, had a real good time. Talked to lots of people on the line using the stuff. Good trip.
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