beamjockey (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} beamjockey) wrote,@ 2007-04-10 13:27:00 |
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Selling Off Our Nation's Precious Scientific Heritage
My pal RZ points out that Ebay user "fnalprop" is really the Fermilab Property Office. He is concerned about this auction.
"How can you be expected to operate a world-class physics laboratory," he says, "if you've sold off your dunk tank?"
He also grumbles about the mediocre salesmanship employed. As an experienced Ebay hound, he could do a much better job of stirring up interest in the equipment, such as pointing out that, in decades of service at picnics, parties, and family days, it may have been used to dunk one or more Nobel Prize winners.
I see there is also a hay-bale roller table up for auction. I presume the bison are being fed by other means.
My pal RZ points out that Ebay user "fnalprop" is really the Fermilab Property Office. He is concerned about this auction.
"How can you be expected to operate a world-class physics laboratory," he says, "if you've sold off your dunk tank?"
He also grumbles about the mediocre salesmanship employed. As an experienced Ebay hound, he could do a much better job of stirring up interest in the equipment, such as pointing out that, in decades of service at picnics, parties, and family days, it may have been used to dunk one or more Nobel Prize winners.
I see there is also a hay-bale roller table up for auction. I presume the bison are being fed by other means.
