so first, fun story about the sinclair zx81: the house I grew up in, had a rudimentary "home automation system", installed in the mid-1980s, driven by a zx81 - mounted sideways to a joist in the basement. Courtesy of the local electric power utility company at the time, LILCO (later LIPA).
man i can't start talking about long island NIMBYs on here. i really don't need that kind of energy in my life.
but this reminded me of the Big Move:
where a 50-foot wide magnet was very carefully shipped from Brookhaven to Fermilab in 2013, mostly by water. that link has lots of pictures and videos of the process. they could have built a new one at fermilab too, but this was much cheaper apparently. and i guess if shoreham hadn't been shut down, maybe that would have never happened, as apparently they need higher power to get at whatever answers they're looking for.
and you can read about the science if you want, too. although that's above my pay grade.
