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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. I'm starting to believe... by Andr+T. · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that the LHC's generated particles from the future will not let it function.

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    Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

  2. Re:First ouch! by Andr+T. · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be lame. Imagine this dialogue:

    Nerd guy: 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon and...'

    Beautiful girl: 'Damn... So I have to use all the time that I have to make sex to all those non-nerd guys over there. Bye!'

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    Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

  3. Re:First ouch! by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be lame. Imagine this dialogue:

    Nerd guy: 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon and...'

    Beautiful girl: 'Damn... So I have to use all the time that I have to make sex to all those non-nerd guys over there. Bye!'

    No you've got it all wrong. Its 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon, but with my new flux capacitor I can bring two person through into a parallel universe across the twenty-fifth dimension. One of them has to be me, because only I can control it and I was thinking perhaps you... but no it would mean staying in a confined space without light for hours

    several hours later: Gosh this parallel world is the one just like ours but where the laws of physics are different enough that the LHC didn't make a black hole'

  4. Dimensions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The parallel universes in which the LHC works without failure are already wiped out by the LHC, that's why any concious being, like you, can only be in a universe in which the LHC fails!

  5. I bet they're kicking themselves by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 5, Funny

    for not buying the extended warranty!

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    This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
  6. Re:First ouch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see that you have given this matter altogether too much consideration.

  7. 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.