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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.

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

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

  4. 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!

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

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

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

    See this previous discussion

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  7. 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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  8. 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.