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LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird
Philip K Dickhead writes "Is Douglas Adams scripting the saga of sorrows facing the LHC? These time-traveling Higgs-Boson particles certainly exhibit the sign of his absurd sense of humor! Perhaps it is the Universe itself, conspiring against the revelations intimated by the operation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider? This time, it is not falling cranes, cracked magnets, liquid helium leaks or even links to Al Qaeda, that have halted man's efforts to understand the meaning of life, the universe and everything. It now appears that the collider is hindered from an initial firing by a baguette, dropped by a passing bird: 'The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant overheating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.'"
OK. That proves it.
Multi-world interpretation is correct and LHC is just a variant of quantum-suicide experiment.
They should keep the women away from the scientific equipment if they can't eat their lunch responsibly!
Was it a European Swallow or an African Swallow?
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
Didn't anybody brief the pigeon? Perhaps it was a bird scientist?
The bird's briefing:
The approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station.
the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
And had I been there at the writing of this headline, I would have kicked his ass! ^^
Wait for the next article's headline to be: Someone Kicked Philip K Dickhead's Ass Again! (Because I bet, with that name, it happened more than once already. ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
One wonders how much it would take to put some kind of roofing over the most vulnerable exterior equipment. Something like corrugated tin on a steel frame or whatever.
You slashdot wise guys! Do you REALLY think PROFESSIONAL scientists would leave critical equipment exposed? That professionals paid to design and engineer a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment would forget a basic piece of covering? That you sitting there and speculating behind your keyboard sitting in your underwear in your mother's basement might have a better idea of how to protect delicate scientific equipment than hundreds of scientists and engineers with post graduate degrees?
Well in this instance it looks like you might be right?
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I have a rock that keeps tigers away to sell you ...
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
put some kind of roofing over the most vulnerable exterior equipment.
There was a roof over it... but unfortunately they forgot about the tunnel effect...
... and it was not an entire baguette, just a small slice of it. An entire baguette would never have been able to tunnel through the roof (tunnel effect is inversely proportional to the mass of the "particle").
The bird breadboarded a busbar inside a building.
The problem is Windows.
It's the work of anti-science sabageutteurs.
-jcr
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Two African swallows with a piece of string between them... maybe.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
The problem is Windows.
You can leave it to slashdot to blame Microsoft for this whole state of affairs :-/
This sig is just as redundant as the rest of this posting
The LHC... the worlds most sophisticated toaster!!!
“Nobody knows how it got there,” she told The Times. “The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane.”
If they've regularly got aeroplanes flying unnoticed through their buildings, they probably have bigger problems than birds and pieces of bread...
Obviously they should put up "no flying in buildings" signs.
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Made from the freshest electrons.
The problem is Windows.
Thankfully, the EU is looking into the anticompetitive practices of Windows, and is demanding that pidgeons have a menu of choice between Windows and Doors, as well as Apple(s) for ammunition.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Isn't leaving extremely powerful particle stream generating equipment out in the open air how supervillains get made?
...and so on. It's how we end up with the nefarious Baguette Man. Hrm... maybe it was on the French side instead of Switzerland?
Tell me this isn't how it happens: some escaping convict, with dogs barking and flashlights swinging wildly behind him is being chased through the Swiss woods. He jumps the one fence with the "do not enter" sign even as the klaxons begin to blare in warning of the experiment beginning. In his panic he doesn't notice the air-cooling door opening ahead of him and falls through into the machine itself. He yells, and bangs on the walls but is unheard and unnoticed as the cold voice of science counts down to ignition over a distant intercom. The hairs on his arms stand on end and electricity crackles through the air around him as the room begins to glow...
More the point: what kind of open-air equipment is immune to rain and vulnerable to bread?
The parent is right. It should, of course, be the 23nd.
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