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CERN's LHC To Shut Down For Repair & Upgrades
hypnosec writes "CERN has revealed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going into hibernation and will be shut down for a period of two years for upgrades. The LHC will go through a maintenance and upgrade phase starting in March that will bring the atom smasher up to speed with its maximum energy levels. From the article: 'The machine that last year helped scientists snare the elusive Higgs boson – or a convincing subatomic impostor – faces a two-year shutdown while engineers perform repairs that are needed for the collider to ramp up to its maximum energy in 2015 and beyond. The work will beef up electrical connections in the machine that were identified as weak spots after an incident four years ago that knocked the collider out for more than a year.'"
Time to get the Black Hole Machine ready for 1.21 Jigawatts
If computers were people, I'd be a misanthrope.
Their plans to end the world have failed, so they're retooling with more power to try again!
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Certain parts of the Bible are heading towards 2000 years, and they are still called Revelations.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
What doesn't that freaking book have? How to please a woman in 100 ways?
That part is called Song of Songs.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.