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 ==== Trip To Fermilab ====
 
 Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]]
 ==== Trip To Fermilab ====
 
 Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]]

-My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab "village", surrounded by
+My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab village, which is
+surrounded by buffalos and various other animals, little lakes and bike paths.
+Indeed very pretty.

 
 On Saturday, I took a guided site tour, starting from the museum.  They
 have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts and really working
 equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters.
 
 Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
 
 On Saturday, I took a guided site tour, starting from the museum.  They
 have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts and really working
 equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters.
 
 Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!

-

 The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
 that produces protons for the MainInjector.  It was like entering an old
 The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
 that produces protons for the MainInjector.  It was like entering an old

-science fiction movie!
+science fiction movie.  You know, like Frankenstein or Buck Rogers: with giant
+Tesla generators, panels with flashing lights and indicators...Buck Rogers
+The continuous buzz reminded us that the proton beam was shooting through
+this long corridor next to me.
+
+Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing.
+The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors,
+with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain.
+

 
 FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world:
 
 
 FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world: