His itinerary included a coach tour around some of the older facilities, including the Mouse House, and a stopover at the Robotics and Process Systems facility to see the Spallation Neutron Source s mercury target simulator. Wamp said that the SNS program s congressional critics have been satisfied with recent progress in the program. Their reasons for apprehension are largely gone, thanks to David Moncton, he said. The congressman made a stop at the new Environmental and Life Sciences Laboratory under construction on the west end of the Lab, which is also the site for the proposed Laboratory for Functional Genomics, or new Mouse House. Congress ramps up funding in areas of research that improve people s lives, Wamp stressed.
Human life is important a fertile field.
Lab researchers have long noted that neutron science and genomics both result in technologies that improve people s lives. Wamp noted the rust and cracked paint of the former Winter Palace, much like the Mouse House, and affirmed the need for quality facilities for quality research. Earlier in the trip, he characterized prospects for funding for the new Mouse House as do-able. Make sustainability fly Paul MacCready s claim to fame, of which he s earned quite a bit, is making things go on as little energy as possible. In fact, he has designed aircraft that fly on power supplied only by human muscle.