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Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed

Posted by kdawson on from the earth-gets-a-reprieve dept.

SpuriousLogic writes "There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on — now it's September 2009, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2008, but then pushed the date back to June 2009, before the latest delay."

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  1. Its 2009, not 2008 by chfriley · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just fyi. And last year was 2008, not 2007.

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    SpuriousLogic writes
    "There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on -- now it's September 2008, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2007, but then pushed the date back to June 2008, before the latest delay."
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  2. Re:NO by aliquis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hard to notice the years passing by in the cellar.

    Damn, yet another year as virgin!

    (I to was wondering if it happened to be an old article which some idiot had posted, but LHC isn't that old I thought... But well, turned out it was just an idiot who wrote the dates.)

  3. Just to clarify by Shrike82 · · Score: 4, Informative
    This seems to be a case of a poor article summary, rather than an actual year old story somehow making it onto /.

    TFA actually mentions no years, just "this year" and "last year".

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  4. When a quote isn't a quote by Lionfire · · Score: 4, Informative

    It would seem that SpuriousLogic didn't actually say that. Not only is there no mention of years in his/her summary, but there are other minor differences. Slashdot editors: putting those little quotation marks around something and attributing it to someone else is fine, just so long as you don't change it.

    1. Re:When a quote isn't a quote by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Informative

      The original submission:

      SpuriousLogic writes
      "The Large Hadron Collider could be switched back on in September a year after it shut down due to a malfunction and several months later than expected.
      Scientists had said they expected the £3.6bn ($5.4bn) machine to be repaired by November, but then pushed the date back to June, before the latest delay."

      So we can thank kdawson for fucking it up and attributing his/her errors to someone else.

  5. Re:Mod parent up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You do, of course, realise that the user with the name "kdawson (3715)" and the user id 1344097 is not the same as the user (and editor) with the name "kdawson" and the user id 3715...

  6. Re:NO by mikesd81 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you getting Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stargate SG-1 mixed up? The trials were by Q in the first and last episodes. de Lancie wasn't in SG1 that much...

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