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a bird and a baguette sabotaged the LHC... again. http://bit.ly/owLBn 7 days ago |
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The Large Hadron Collider has been shut down again – this time a bird dropped a bagel onto sensitive outdoor machinery. http://bit.ly/2tISni 9 days ago |
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bread dropped by a bird knocked down LHC http://bit.ly/owLBn 11 days ago |
"Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber"
MAKE Magazine —
The God machine just can't catch a break...
A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher's subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. According to scientists at the project, had the LHC been operational - it is scheduled to recommence beaming later this month - the snag would have caused it to fail safe and shut down automatically. This would put the ...
Breaking: Large Hadron Collider shut down by precision bird strike
CrunchGear —
... thing we’ve got to the Death Star. With miles of passages, the capability to destroy a planet, and a bunch of people dressed in white scooting around inside, it’s actually a pretty good fit. So it’s no surprise that it has the same weakness. Concerned only with interference from cosmic radiation and nearby townspeople, the structure was 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 ...
No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread
DVICE Atom Feed —
... differential that triggered 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 —
... 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 ...
Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber
KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News —
A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), causing significant overheating in the system's supercooled magnetic doughnut.
Obligatory "this is not an Onion story" statement - Ed.
See also: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
(Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/lhc_bread_bomb_dump_incident/)
Large Hadron Collider bombed by carb-loaded bird
SlashGear —
... The Large Hadron Collider experienced overheating problems this week after – and we’re not making this up – a bird dropped a piece of bread onto part of the machinery. According to LHC Machine Coordinator Dr Mike Lamont, “a bit of baguette on the busbars” caused temperatures in portions of the system to rise from their regular 1.9 Kelvin to almost 8 Kelvin; the LHC is not currently operational, after previous – more serious – overheating issues ...
