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LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the future-gremlins-are-watching dept.

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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  1. Take it easy people ... by abbynormal+brain · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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!

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    L'esperienza de questa dolce vita (The experience of this sweet life) - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy