LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure

known_ID writes "The Large Hadron Collider — the most puissant particle-punisher ever assembled by the human race — has suffered another major power failure, knocking not only the atom smasher itself but even its associated websites offline."

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Birdy bread-bomber from the future

[Barryke]

FTA

"Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future," jokes Chris Stephens of the LHC Portal - referring to the well-known wingnut theory that that the mere possibility of the LHC unmasking certain phenomena engenders forces which act backwards through time to sabotage it before this can happen.

Dang those future guys

[gestalt_n_pepper]

Interfering with our research. I say we go and kick thei

Take it easy people ...

[abbynormal brain]

Following 1912, we learned how to properly top "water-tight" containers on ships (Titanic)
In 1940 we took bridge building back to the drawing board (Tacoma Narrows Bridge)
In 1996 we slapped a mathematician for not properly handling floating point decimals - it only cost $6M (Ariane 5)

We learned so much from these things and it was bound to happen with the LHC as well. I mean, c'mon! It only cost ... hmm ... how much did it cost. Let me see here (Checks Popular Science) ... $6 BILLION! WTF?! Forget what I said, get a rope!

Bagel

[Enderandrew]

Was it another bird with a bagel crumb?

The first 6 billion dollars doesn't include bagel protection. That is an additional 6 billion.

WHen CERN was asked why

[geekoid]

the web site information about the Large Hadron Collider had disappeared, they said "What Large Hadron Collider?" Jump into there new Ferrari and sped off to the airport.