acidity

[jay]

Right now we've finished one hole and are waiting for the next one... actually, right this moment everyone has either gone to their beds or out to bars ;-). I've spent the day resolving NASA problems -- Johnson Space Center hired the Carnegie Institute to do some biochemistry, now the Carnegie guy (a) publicly derides the recently-arrived JSC colleague as a no-talent loser, (b) wants to take the specimens back to Carnegie, instead of curation at JSC. The project lead (CS) is in transit, flying home today, and is unavailable... I'm the only NASA employee left here, so I get to clean up ;-).

Otherwise, I drove to Seville, picked up the JSC person at the airport after she turned in her rental car, and bought packing supplies at El Corte Ingles (department store on the ring road). I bought two white T-shirts which are now steeping in red and yellow acid springs.

Last Friday CS poured a ceremonial bottle of Rio Tinto water down the completed borehole, and we posed for a group picture. Note the position of the rock core that Todd is holding (next to me)...

My T-shirts are now soaking in this ferrous spring (pH = 1.4):


And here's our group photo from Friday:

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's some...core. *snerk* Did he do that deliberately?

And...um...will you have much shirt left, or will the acid eat them?

Looks like the team is pretty happy with its accomplishments...I'm glad it worked out.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I don't think so... once we saw the photo, he was teased unmercifully about his "personal ad" (grin).