I came up with elements of Webb
because I have seen in all of our articles and videos
that we kept mentioning that we used gold and beryllium for these mirrors,
that there are all these special materials, but
we didn't really explain why we used them.
So I wanted to get sort of into the nitty gritty of the material science
to explore why these were and then actually just demonstrate
why these materials behave the way they do.
I got a piece! I got a piece!
Not only was it
a, I think, cool science adventure for you because you did a lot of research.
It was an adventure just going out and capturing everything.
That's the great, beautiful Salt Lake back there.
Okay.
We just got attacked, but they're still swimming around us.
These little gnats.
I will say that my proudest moment was being able
to go to the beryllium mine.
That took a lot of work to get to.
We found the beryllium shop, and then we got them
to talk to their people and then convincing those people
to let us fly into Salt Lake City and actually go to the frickin beryllium mine.
Was this has all been mined out.
So we've had like so much latitude in this project, which we're very lucky.
But yeah, so we were able to hire a drone operator,
which was so cool.
And so he was able to get perspectives on this huge hole in the ground
that we would never otherwise be able to see
and actually get like a really good perspective on like just how massive it is
and really
how much rock you have to remove to get even the smallest amounts of beryllium.
COVID
just wiped this whole thing out because we were planning to go
to a lot of different places and then when COVID hit and we couldn't
go anywhere, she did.
I went to say like 80% of the whole production at your house.
Yeah.
And you did some amazing stuff at your house.
And we're recording.
But first I have to make some distilled water,
but first I have to make some distilled water.
It was fun.
I mean, it made me take a little more time to think about what I was talking about.
And I actually think they ultimately made a better video.
I already see two pieces.
One of the great things about this job is that, you know,
we meet a lot of different people, you learn a lot of stuff,
but you're also able to go into places
and see things that, you know, nobody else gets to see.
And I think the Element series is really one of those projects
that we were just able to go and into different places.
Sort of my philosophy on life is just start doing the things
that you want to do.
You're never going to have the gear that you want.
You're never necessarily going to have the time that you want.
But like try to figure it out and just, just
do it.