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Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-we-can dept.

mactard submitted a collection of insanely beautiful pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. I've always had a warm place for amazing photgraphs, and these really don't disappoint. Science really is beautiful sometimes.

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  1. 3rd photo by tgd · · Score: 5, Funny

    That 3rd photo looks an awful lot like a stargate.

    I'm assuming its a shot facing downwards, thus the pool of water or whatever that is, but it just looks cool.

    1. Re:3rd photo by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, the FIRST picture looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster with it's clothes off.

      ... averts eyes ...

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      Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
  2. The first comment on the article is hilarious. by Xenex · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This thing is going to kill us all."

    1. Re:The first comment on the article is hilarious. by Gromius · · Score: 5, Funny

      Look I've never understood what the LHC is going to kill us all thing. I'm a physicist working on the CMS experiment so perhaps I can explain what we are going to do more clearly. All we plan to do is take two proton beams or 'streams' and then cross them. Why is everybody so worried?

  3. This looks like something from Half Life by Rooked_One · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, it begs the question - where's our savior, Gordan Freeman?

  4. Slashdot + page of high res photos by Anrego · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. this can't end well

  5. Valve will sue by eekygeeky · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is clearly copyright infringement.

  6. Blueprint for an alien invasion by fullgandoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this wasn't designed by inter-galactic aliens, i'll eat my hat. I can't think of any purpose of this machine other than them beaming down their armies as soon as the thing is fully powered.
    Search for exotic particles? Yeah right!

    1. Re:Blueprint for an alien invasion by White+Flame · · Score: 4, Funny

      If this wasn't designed by inter-galactic aliens, i'll eat my hat.

      I don't think eating tin foil is that great an idea...

  7. Re:Arise! by srjh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me guess... it's giving you a hadron?

  8. .. about the size of a pea. by Channard · · Score: 3, Funny

    It does look impressive. Now all we need is an undead assassin to tow it out into space attached to a giant insect. Before we all die horribly.

  9. Holy Shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Picture 5, I just spotted the Higgs Boson! Oh no wait, hold on. False alarm folks. Just a dead pixel.

  10. Re:System Shock by kvezach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look at you, poster... a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you wait for your karma reward. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal supercollider?

  11. Re:The "Time Projection Chamber" by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    You posted that same question yesterday.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  12. Re:Dates? by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Deceember 21, 2012, according to the Mayans.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  13. Re:Mon Dieu! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is for sure the stuff that sets Man apart from Animal!

    Oh, please. The rats keep trying to build a cyclotron in my basement.

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