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Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe)

Posted by timothy on from the look-at-me-look-at-me dept.

jamie points out this piece from always-entertaining Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, who asks this week the simple question "What happens if you put your hand in the beam of the Large Hadron Collider?" The thrill of discovery to me doesn't sound worth the worst-case scenario.

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  1. Re:Already happened before by bcmm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (though we don't know of anyone else who has been exposed to radiation in the form of a proton beam moving at about the speed of sound) [My emphasis]

    This was where I stopped reading and just read Anatoli Bugorski's Wikipedia article instead.

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    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.