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Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country

Posted by Soulskill on from the will-take-a-lot-of-stamps dept.

necro81 writes "Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron's heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces and investigates, and it just so happens that Brookhaven National Laboratory outside NYC has one to spare. But how do you transport a delicate, 15-m diameter, 600-ton superconducting magnet halfway across the country? Very carefully."

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  1. Hello datacenters by dadelbunts · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would be so tempted to just drive by datacenters wiping all their data. It probably wouldnt work BUT I CAN DREAM CANT I!

    1. Re:Hello datacenters by dadelbunts · · Score: 4, Funny

      The dream police, they live inside of my head. The dream police, they come to me in my bed. The dream police, theyre coming to arrest me, oh no.

    2. Re:Hello datacenters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      don't worry, I saw it this morning. It, and the truck, was hanging from a steel railroad underpass.

  2. UPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    UPS and lots of bubble wrap!

  3. Wonder what they collected? by QuasiRob · · Score: 3, Funny

    By the time it arrived I wonder if it was covered in bits of wire, steel cans, bikes. screws and other random bits of iron.

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    If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?
    1. Re:Wonder what they collected? by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why are all these people tailgating me?

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      Have gnu, will travel.
  4. Storage ring, right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's just a cover story. They're really moving the Stargate.

  5. There's a joke there, but I'm not touching it. by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 1, Funny

    re: Like most hung things,...it is easier to take via water...

    There's a joke there, but I'm not touching it.

    .

    ... but I'm not touching it....

    That's what she said!

    Oh wait, I done goofed on myself if I were a guy. I musta got that joke meme wrong somehow... ;>)

  6. Need to move a ring? by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get a hobbit to do it. Its the only way.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
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