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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 Gromius · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You're not the first person to think so. It is suspicious that no answer is actually given....

    2. Re:3rd photo by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Interesting

      While we're swooning over the LHC watch the Large Hadron Rap video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM (Don't worry, it's made by some of the people who work there and it's pretty funny, and sums it up nicely)

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

    .. this can't end well

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

    this is clearly copyright infringement.

  5. Obsoletely Amazing... by ClaraBow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is astonishing what man can accomplish when not at war!

    1. Re:Obsoletely Amazing... by antic · · Score: 4, Insightful

      +1 on amazing.

      I don't know how it works exactly, but it's massive, incredibly complicated and absolutely stunning. Something of a beacon to children becoming interested in science, I'm sure.

      A toast to the brains behind it and those who got it funded.

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  6. the most impressive thing by Gromius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always find the most impressive things about the detectors is the cabling that you have to do. The CMS ECAL has at least 61,200 cables to read out all the the crystals, the tracker (first photo) also has thousands and thousands of cables. Trying to wire the damn thing up is an epic task (one I'm happy to have avoided) and trust me, you dont want to screw up.

  7. 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...

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

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

  9. Yes, it does run linux by mad+zambian · · Score: 5, Informative

    See this previous discussion

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  10. Don't cross the streams by v1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
    Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

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  11. 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.

  12. ET technology by SpaceGoret · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is so beautiful. It looks like extra-terrestrial technology.

  13. machine porn vs beautiful science by somethinsfishy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The tools are beautiful objects, to be sure. But what makes beautiful science is elegant, concise, and simple (within the context) descriptions of how the universe works.

  14. Re:I wanted to try and find by caluml · · Score: 4, Informative

    But this this is a lot better. Has an overlay, with the rings on it.

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  15. 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?

  16. 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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