harRUMph !!! why , i remember the day when one had to walk 15 miles , uphill both ways , in the snow , to get in line to use the prep lab so that one could submit one’s specimen of alleged spanish fly to the spectrometer operations team ; AND then one had to wait for some beginning cobol or fortran programmer printing out one digit to a page for reams and boxes of paper to finish before the results could be spooled and printed ~ spoiled , rotten { vague degenerate mumbling } ( and what about a pi cam with a diffraction grating ?? low powered laser diodes of assorted frequency are also extremely cheapo these days , ehy ? )
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