SANDRA DEE
Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, deceased.
Bobby sox and pony-tails, in my sixties with a heart that fails
The girl next door doesn't live there, anymore
How can it be, when I was Sandra Dee, it seemed like only yesterday
that I was young and cute, now I am electrocuted
by the shocking voltage of old age.
Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee
As I am now, so too shall ye be
I'm Sandra Dee, I died, I'm dead
You might care more if it were your turn, instead
I'm Sandra Dee, the eternal teen
trying to define my identity
Life hints of promise, only to tease
Even Sandra Dee wastes away from disease
Look at you, you're Sandra Dee
Living a life of absurdity
and always, blindly, refusing to see
that you are a meaningless blink in eternity
I'm Sandra Dee, I sink into insanity
I must be mad, on LSD
I don't mean that my Dee struction
should cause you deep Dee pression
Honesty is just my passion
The sudden, shocking voltage...
Better than to languish in your dotage
How wise of our Creator
To burn my insulators
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UNNAMED GRADUATE STUDENT FROM INDIA
ASSISTS IN DESTROYING THE DEE INSULATORS
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http://www.smecc.org/salisbury_-_the_lawrence_years.htm
I remember falling over from my squatting position and thinking,
"What a big earthquake to move the 70 ton magnet so rapidly.
I was falling over as a result of the shock and fortunately fell
free of my contact. I must have yelled, because I came to to
find myself being brought to an upright stance by Robert Cornog
and Dr. Louis Alvarez. I took a deep breath and realized that my
heart was shaking in a violent spasm rather than beating. My
early experience as a Junior in college with Biofeedback came to
mind and I exerted mental control and stopped the fibulation and
started a good solid beat.
The results of this experience were: first my personal
discomfort due to internal electrical burn, which caused my
sweat to be very stinky for at least six weeks and, a period of
recovery from general shakiness and weakness. The external
burns at contact points on hands and elbows were nominal. The
other result was to make the whole lab conscious of the
necessity of safety interlocks and their intelligent use.
There followed a period of examining and rebuilding all the
safety features of our system. We already had interlocks on all
water cooling systems, but had perhaps not given sufficient
attention to problems of personal safety.
The particle energy we claimed and were being misled by radio
frequency arc phenomena we did not understand. So with great
pride Lawrence had me put on a target with a 1/2 inch aluminum
foil window (microphone diaphragm stock) which with outside air
cooling would let a considerable beam of 8 M.E.V. Deuterons out
in (the) air so that the range and ionization of the particles
in ambient air could be easily seen. The swell of ozone was very
strong.
After looking at this display, Cocroft agreed that the observed
range showed we had real energetic particles as claimed. I was
overseeing the control station with a young graduate student
from India, whose name I no longer remember, at the controls.
Lawrence proudly pointed out to Cocroft the Dee voltage
indicated on the meters and explained the calibration procedure.
Suddenly he said to Cocroft, "Would you like to see what is
inside the cyclotron?"
"I would be most interested, " replied Cocroft.
Then with no hesitation, Lawrence reached over the operator's
shoulder and pushed the off button for the ton (ion?) source
arc voltage.
The 'Dee' voltage rose instantly and with a great crash
destroyed the 'Dee' insulators.
Robert Oppenheimer, William Brobeck, Robert Cornog, Robert R.
Wilson, Eugene Viez, J.J. Livingood. (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory)
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