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Re:How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe by astrodust on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:27PM (#8080504)
I'm sure they had one of those "Oh..." moments when they realized there was something that didn't quite work out.
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Re:How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe by aragot on Thursday July 24, 2014 @01:29PM (#8080931)
There are a few moments in recent history where I wish I had been. This is one of them, along with the day after the 2007 iPhone keynote in the Android 1 offices, and when the French company realized they'd built their trains 1cm too wide for a thousand platforms [1].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-rail-o...

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Re:How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe by brazzy on Thursday July 24, 2014 @05:48PM (#8082481)
Actually, I'm pretty sure that this was planned and budgeted for very early in the project. This is highly specialized gear that you cannot just build smaller, let alone shop around for a maker closer to you.
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