With SNO in the neighbourhood I had a very high expectation of the standards pertaining to cleanliness in and around neutrino detectors. After all the water has to be really clean to make it possible to infer anything about neutrinos that interact in the detector. Anyway this may have sounded like gibberish to you, but the point is that I expected to see a detector that would have made Mr. Clean look like a dirty old man. I was quite disappointed when I finally entered the detector system to install the manipulator and saw this:
Those wires were all red at some point, just that they now have some gangrene. The entire thing looks like a herd of chimpanzees was set lose in there.
The up side to all this: after we spend so much time keeping the arm clean and we dropped it in the tank (I will have some pictures of that process up sometime soon) the water got cleaner. So if nothing else we cleaned the place up for everyone.
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