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CrunchGear: Breaking: Large Hadron Collider shut down by precision bird strike
DVICE Atom Feed: No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread
Gizmodo: Large Hadron Collider Overheats Due To Dropped Chunk Of Bread [Lhc]
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This is too funny: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc 47 hours ago |
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Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) http://bit.ly/3EUDWA 2 days ago |
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Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) http://bit.ly/1vaLmn (Direto do GReader) 3 days ago |
Breaking: Large Hadron Collider shut down by precision bird strike
CrunchGear —
... built underground — but they didn’t count on the possibility of a small one-man fighter armed with the Force a clumsy bird with a bit of baguette making the trench run and hitting it where the least expected it.
The absurdity of this failure (though it apparently won’t affect the re-activation) makes me think that maybe the LHC really is so abhorrent to nature that the universe is contriving to snuff it out.
[via PopSci]
No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread
DVICE Atom Feed —
... an automatic shutdown sequence. I know, I know — I'm sure that ruins all the images you had of a bird navigating the LHC's 17-mile-ring like a Death Star trench run, but there it is.
The Large Hadron Collider should still get collidin' in November as planned, though it will be offline for the next few days as CERN restarts it. Unless the crumb from a worker's lunch causes the LHC to explode and destroy half the planet, that is.
The Register, via Popular Mechanics, via io9
Large Hadron Collider Overheats Due To Dropped Chunk Of Bread [Lhc]
Gizmodo —
... Large Hadron Collider overheated, but it wasn't because of a software error or terrorism. It was because a bird dropped a piece of bread onto some outdoor equipment. The LHC's beam wasn't actually operational at the time, so the automatic fail-safe mechanism didn't need to kick in. Nonetheless the operation had to be shut down until the problem was found. No remarks on whether anyone tracked down the bird bomber and compensated it for the lost lunch. [Register via Pop Sci]
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Large Hadron Collider: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous
Boing Boing —
... Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down the Large Hadron Collider (Really), Popular Science. You should follow the link just to see their illustration "according to eyewitness accounts". Via ...
Bird Causes Large Hadron Collider to Shut Down
Tech Blog —
... You'd think that the "world's most powerful particle accelerator" would be able to withstand any type of bird-related mishap. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Basically, a bird dropped a baguette on an outdoor section of the LHC, eventually causing it to overheat.
The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
[via Popsci]
Bird, Baguette Shut Down Large Hadron Collider
Gearlog —
... Popular Science reports that a bird dropped a baguette on a section of LHC machinery outdoors, which eventually caused part of the accelerator to overheat--enough that if the LHC were actually running at the time, the heat would have triggered automatic failsafes and shut down the system. ...
Large Hadron Collider Clogged by Bird's Baguette Bomb
Switched —
... the CERN control center, reassured everyone that the LHC's safety net would have been strong enough to withstand the attack, especially in light of its significant upgrade in September. Continue reading Large Hadron Collider Clogged by Bird's Baguette Bomb Large Hadron Collider Clogged by Bird's Baguette Bomb originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
2 Pieces of Awesomeness for a Friday
Core77 —
... | 6 Nov 2009 Best comment this week: "We've given a bird a piece of bread designed to drop at the exact spot where over heating for the particle acceleratot. [sic] Lets see if the scientist notice." From This PopSci story ( thanks Eric! ) Best tweet EVER: "Twitter is like daytime TV for working people." From ...
