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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:29AM 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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Hello datacenters by dadelbunts · 2013-05-21 08:31 · 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 · 2013-05-21 08:43 · 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.