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."

Comments

engineers vs. scientists

[Lord Ender]

This is what happens when you send scientists and academics to do the work experienced engineers should be doing.

Academics don't even see failure like this as a bad thing. It's an interesting point of study, which may help them learn, etc.. Engineers just want to make shit work, so they overengineer the parts that make them nervous, do component testing ahead of time, and generally make things happen.

Re:Future doesn't want to be discovered?

[Mikkeles]

Comon; they're F/LOSS people; they've never done anything that hasn't been already.