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LHC Shut Down Because of Electrical Fault
Posted by Sean Fallon at 6:50 AM on September 19, 2008
Barely a week after it was powered up for the first time, the Large Hadron Collider was shut down temporarily when an electrical fault struck a cooling system for the high-powered magnets responsible for steering beams of particles through the tunnel. It should really come as no surprise that problems would pop up from time to time given the immense complexity of the LHC—a sentiment echoed by an LHC spokesman when she said that stoppages would be" normal" given the fact that the system is still in its commissioning phase.[Physorg]
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janeva
Posted September 19, 2008 8:45 AM
Poor little guy! I hope it gets back up and running smoothly!
John
Posted September 19, 2008 4:10 PM
It's a sad world if people can't even be bothered to read more than the headline in articles on the LHC. Everyone is responsible for what they say or write and ignorance is not an excuse to talk absolute crap, so don't give this kind of people an excuse to write garbage.
@ All the doomsdayers
To all the people who think the LHC will destroy the planet, first please read some proper science articles, or even the BBC articles on this or the decent UK newspaper websites like the times, guardian, and independent. Then come back here and type something worthwhile about the LHC.
And for any statement about the LHC that's complete speculation it's up to you to prove that it will cause some harm to you, otherwise intellectual people have every right to call you a complete buffoon.
Anything you can't prove to be correct is 'never' assumed to be correct, as for example religion beliefs, and all other garbage which requires a stupid belief, and so anyone with critical thinking skills has the right to point out this obvious fact and say you are wrong, unless you can prove otherwise.
This is the same for everything 'anyone' puts down in text, writing or speaks, and if by critical thinking someone else can challenge that assertion, they have the right to do so without any offence caused towards the speaker/writer/texter. This is also the case for religious beliefs, and if you feel offence has been caused then you are wrong to take offence, and by trying to make the critical thinker feel bad you are in actual fact being completely out of order. It is time everyone stopped with all belief systems and accept only 'facts' as factual. That means all unsupported claims without appropriate scientific evidence and so zero proof is classified as either a belief or speculation. Only, and I repeat only scientifically supported claims with real documented evidence and so proof can be 'factual'. Just get it people because nobody else except yourself can ever make you understand this!
badhatharry
Posted 7:24 AM 19/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Wow. This was a stupid joke, but it prompted you to compose a treatise on what the world needs now.
@ps61318: the U.S. threw some funds into the pot to build this. CERN isn't just France and Switzerland.
My post was sarcasm meant to outline how complicated the Collider is, but the "man on the moon" setup made that unclear. I will construct my jokes in a better fashion next time.
How about this?:
The Collider was fixed when one scientist giggled the handle.
badhatharry
Pwnage
Posted 7:20 AM 19/9/08
You'd think with this much taxpayer money going towards that thing, they would at least have messed it up a little bit more...
Pwnage
Tweak
Posted 7:19 AM 19/9/08
They forgot to mention the the faulty cooling cased 10 employees to melt
Tweak
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 7:18 AM 19/9/08
@badhatharry: Harry, have you seen the sorry state of our space program.
We can't put a man on the Moon. We used to be able to, but we can't now. We lack the resolve, the funding, and the public's imagination.
I hate to piddle upon parades but as long as we're pouring a trillion dollars into preventing total worldwide economic meltdown, we're not putting money into space exploration - let alone manned space exploration.
There is a system-wide failure right now. Maybe the LHC will find the so-called God Particle; maybe it will fizzle. Personally, I have nothing against the LHC.
The Large Hadron Collider has the ability to capture the world's imagination and to bring people to science. It stokes intellectual curiosity. In a world where the frontiers are closing, where habitats are shrinking, where all the blank spots on the maps are filled in, the LHC makes people want to discover.
I support the LHC for these reasons. It is what the world needs now.
OMG! Ponies!
lldsandsll
Posted 7:16 AM 19/9/08
@zenpoet: nice
lldsandsll
zenpoet
Posted 7:15 AM 19/9/08
@ps61318: Thanks. Hopefully I didn't just use up my yearly quotient of wit.
zenpoet
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 7:11 AM 19/9/08
@ps61318: Exactly. If those CERN dudes, and dudettes can't cool a bunch of magnets they'll never be able to get a man on the moon..
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
ps61318
Posted 7:08 AM 19/9/08
@zenpoet: That's very funny. Truly.
ps61318
ps61318
Posted 7:07 AM 19/9/08
@badhatharry: Um, why have you been paying taxes to France and Switzerland? And when did CERN put a man on the moon?
/fake bewilderment
ps61318
badhatharry
Posted 7:05 AM 19/9/08
Let me get this straight, we can put a man on the moon but we can't cool 1,232 magnets to 1.9K to see subatomic particles crash into each other without flipping a fucking breaker?
That settles it, I'm not paying taxes this year.
badhatharry
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 7:05 AM 19/9/08
LHC closed due to man appearing in collider claiming he was in a body that was not his own. He was taken to hospital while constantly talking to a space over his right shoulder he referred to as "Al-Ziggy". Interpol will begin questioning him after his release to rule out Afghanistanian terrorist ties to Sheik Al-Zig-giddy.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
jkr's bold comment
Posted 7:00 AM 19/9/08
Still waiting for them to finish installing the damn black hole button. On a side note, does anybody think the pic above looks like a space amoeba?
jkr's bold comment
DarkHavoc99
Posted 6:59 AM 19/9/08
Wait wait wait. I thought it was Halo now?
DarkHavoc99
Curves
Posted 6:56 AM 19/9/08
They got sucked into the black hole.
Curves
zenpoet
Posted 6:55 AM 19/9/08
AP: Large Hadron Collider shut down after a fault in the wiring caused a rift in the time/space continuum. Authorities stated the problem should be fixed yesterday.
zenpoet
badhatharry
Posted 7:55 AM 19/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: I love Corn Pops. You don't see me wasting everyone's time with how they will save the world. Although seriously, they will. Have you tasted them? Those things are off the hizzy.
badhatharry
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 7:33 AM 19/9/08
@badhatharry: I love the LHC. It really has me jazzed. It's like the two scientists who discovered the "echo" of the Big Bang in 1975. There is something inexplicably amazing about it.
OMG! Ponies!
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 8:19 AM 19/9/08
@badhatharry: Corn Pops are okay. I used to love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. And Honeycomb.
Still, for pure goodness, nothing beats a 1:1:1 mix of Cocoa Puffs, Cocoa Krispies, and Cocoa Pebbles, floating in a pool of chocolate milk, eaten while sitting Indian-style on the floor 2' away from the TV, watching ThunderCats, Transformers, JEM, and GI Joe.
And strewn around on the family room floor, the remnants of Optimus Prime's destroyed LEGO fortress (1x2 and 2x3 bricks everywhere). Mirage is gasping for life, Megatron is gloating alongside 2 COBRA stormtroopers, and Zartan is readying an onslaught of Star Wars action figures to deploy from the Dukes of Hazzard lunchbox.
Gen-X childhood FTW - there's a reason we don't want to grow up.
OMG! Ponies!
badhatharry
Posted 8:09 AM 19/9/08
No, I mean giggled. I will thank you not to edit me in the future.
Also a joke.
badhatharry
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 8:09 AM 19/9/08
Attention all doomsday theorists: Dinner's served!
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:03 AM 19/9/08
@badhatharry: My post was sarcasm meant to outline how complicated the Collider is, but the "man on the moon" setup made that unclear. I will construct my jokes in a better fashion next time.
How about this?:
The Collider was fixed when one scientist giggled the handle.
Did you mean jiggled? lol
Sorry just breaki.., er colliding your stones a little.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
aec007
Posted 8:22 AM 19/9/08
I bet is just a λ² headcrab stuck in one of the tubes.... that's all.
aec007
Lazarus511
Posted 8:57 AM 19/9/08
OMG! Ponies! for President!!
Lazarus511
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 9:28 AM 19/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: You watched Jem? That is truly, truly, truly outrageous.
92BuickLeSabre
badhatharry
Posted 9:24 AM 19/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: You have type II, don't you?
badhatharry
P3nnst8r
Posted 9:50 AM 19/9/08
I thought i noticed my lights flickering earlier.
P3nnst8r
badhatharry
Posted 9:44 AM 19/9/08
@92BuickLeSabre: I did, but would never admit it to anyone. Not even under threat of torture. Nothing will ever get me to admit I watched Jem.
badhatharry
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 10:25 AM 19/9/08
@zenpoet: very nice, and quick.
BiZarRroBALlmeR
FubarGuy
Posted 10:11 AM 19/9/08
Come on LHC, walk it off. Walk it off.
FubarGuy
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 10:43 AM 19/9/08
@92BuickLeSabre: I watched a lot of cartoons. Including JEM. And I'm secure enough in my masculinity to admit it.
At first, I wasn't too into Disney afternoons. Gummi Bears was okay but I hated Rescue Rangers. Obviously Duck Tales was the sheeeeeeeeeeeeit. Tale Spin was a truly underappreciated gem. And of course I watched Darkwing Duck. My favorite episode was Darkwarrior Duck - where Goslyn gets zapped into the future. But DW thinks that she was killed. In the future, DW has gone full-tilt psycho and turned the city into his own police state. The punishment for every infraction is death.
Hated Go-Bots and loved Transformers. GI Joe was awesome although my hippie mom didn't like me watching it because she said it promoted war.
I liked Superfriends but I loved Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. My first introduction to the X-Men was an episode where Professor Xavier said that Iceman and Firestorm could join the X-Men but that Spidey had to take a hike because he wasn't born a mutant.
Topping it all off, before Fox bought out WWDC (DC 20), then an independent UHF station, every Sunday morning I could watch Tarzan movies with Johnny Weismuller, Three Stooges, Our Gang and Little Rascals (until the Cos bought the rights), Abbott and Costello movies, Flash Gordon serials with Buster Crabbe, and old Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons.
Network conglomerization ruined good independent TV.
OMG! Ponies!
ajcali08
Posted 10:33 AM 19/9/08
Wheres the CUDA program for this???
ajcali08
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 11:08 AM 19/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Damn, hit send too early. What about Silverhawks?
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 11:07 AM 19/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: How could you not like Rescue Rangers? I had such a crush on Gadget as a kid.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
jkr's bold comment
Posted 12:37 PM 19/9/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: wasn't one of them gold?
jkr's bold comment
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 8:57 PM 19/9/08
@jkr's bold comment: You are thinking of the CopperKid, I think. It was a good show. I had a crush on Ironheart(yes, I had many a crush on animated female characters). Also, the guy who was in charge I think had a gold or brass arm.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
brutaluser
Posted 8:07 AM 19/9/08
Ok Who tripped over the cord........?
brutaluser
chumleyex
Posted 11:44 PM 19/9/08
why do people always knock our space program, lets see ANY other country put up more then 3 people into space at a time. Sheesh, we are co-owners of a freakn space station, we own a fleet of (yes old but useful) Space Shuttles that have been used more then once, ummm we have lord knows how many things on or near other planets, a giant telescope pointed out into the universe, and another one on the way.. HEEELLLLOOOOO we aren't doing too bad.
chumleyex
hagrun
Posted 11:34 PM 19/9/08
Does this mean we all died?
hagrun
Victor V.
Posted 8:25 AM 20/9/08
@hagrun: No, but we'll be dying in 3... 2... 1... second ago.
Victor V.
Firesoul1
Posted 12:33 PM 21/9/08
wheres master chief when you need him?
Firesoul1