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LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million

Posted by kdawson on from the black-holes-don't-come-cheap dept.

ThanatosMinor writes "September's quench at the Large Hadron Collider is going to cost CERN at least $21 million and delay future collisions until June of 2009 at the earliest. Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon."

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  1. actually by Reality+Master+201 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At least one person has killer herself because she went into an irrational panic, and did something stupid and rash. That's often a sign of psychological problems.

    Yeah, the media coverage has been sensationalist and dumb. But it didn't kill anyone.