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Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator
GrepNut writes "CERN is reporting that the giant magnets that steer the particle beam in the new and highly anticipated Large Hadron Collider have just failed catastrophically in a stress test, apparently due to a design oversight. It doesn't help that the magnets were designed and built by CERN's US competitor Fermilab." While safety precautions were followed, and no one was injured nor were any rifts in the space-time continuum opened, it's still a rather large setback for the project.
Scientists: Muhahahaha, that will teach those Europeans.
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Don't these people know the 6+ mile Boston "Big Dig" with only 2+ miles under the harbor has so-far cost almost as much as the 31-mile Chunnel? That they faked the books to hide substandard materials, it leaks like a sieve, and a chunk has already fallen loose and killed a motorist? It's just becoming an American tradition post-Challenger/Hubble/Star Wars that you got paid to do it multiple times until you get it right.
What were they thinking contracting one of the most important components to Americans?
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"or did you just not get it?"
It just wasn't all that funny
Before I wrote this post, I took a look at your post history. It appears that you are not just 'unfunny', but it seems that people don't think you are interesting, insightful either.
At least when NASA has a problem, they photograph it and show it to the readers. The lack of pictures, interviews, and names in the CERN press release is incredible. It is quite a different culture than we're used to.
The difference is that the closest black hole in the universe is lightyears away (at least that is the current conception) and the universe seems to be balanced out perfectly so all the dangerous stuff that is floating around doesn't consume the whole universe. It's a careful setup of universal laws that keep it together, just like the ecosystem on earth did for thousands of years. Human's in their everlasting quest for knowledge and other 'enrichment' seems to be consistent in messing things up that work perfectly and make it a dangerous object. It happens at home when the man of the house thinks he can fix his own brakes and then seems to be messing around with it for several hours to the collection of us sentient beings messing up all types of natural systems including our own food and other supply chains (water, air, ...)
So that is why people don't trust scientists creating miniature black holes too close to their homes. First of all, we don't know what it is going to do (that's why it's called an experiment) and when we're messing around with atoms and other building blocks, we have always messed up to start off with (nuclear energy, first appliance was a bomb. Geneticly modified food, seems to be not so healthy after all)
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You see, this is the kind of "thinking" that really piss me off.
I'm pretty sure CERN didn't specific a requirement that the system should not turn into molten peanut butter is someone in a red dress walked by. But if that happened, Fermilab would have screwed up. No one is asking the system works under completely unrelated uses or circumstances here.
The project was not assigned for John Doe assembly line (which usually builds hair spray cans). It was assigned to someone that should (under reasonably expectations) know what they were doing.
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