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LHC Success!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-news-everybody dept.

Tomahawk writes "It worked! The LHC was turned on this morning and has been shown to have worked. Engineers cheered as the proton particles completed their first circuit of the underground ring which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). (And we're all still alive, too!)" Here is a picture from the control room which I'm sure makes sense to someone that isn't me.

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  1. !Already Hysteria The Can ?See by BigBlueOx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    !tards, Relax .continuum spacetime the in disturbance horrible no been there's and up fired successfully been has LHC The

  2. Re:More than scientific learning by legallyillegal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow. This gets modded Redundant, but the post 5 minutes later doesn't. On top of that, the post 23 minutes after this one gets modded Redundant.

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  3. I have a black hole in my pants. by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a black hole in my pants, Mrs. Vice President... do you want to see my collider?

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  4. Re:Oblig. Eddie Izzard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cake or death?

    Cake please.

    Sorry, we're all out of cake. We didn't expect to have such a run on it.

    Ok, I'll have the chicken then.

    Well... Ok. Good thing we're the Church of England.

    CmdrTaco wants some bukkake.