Large Hadron Collider Suffers Carb Attack

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Large Hadron Collider suffers carb attack

By Janet Raloff

Web edition : Friday, November 6th, 2009

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Efforts to get the Large Hadron Collider up and running just encountered a temporary snag, reports yesterday's online edition of The Times of London. A crusty chunk of bread “paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit.” That cryogenic facility, guarded by high-security fences, is designed to super-chill the LHC to temperatures approaching absolute zero.

And the official explanation for the out-of-place chunk of starch?

“Nobody knows,” a spokewoman for the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva told The Times. “The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane.” Then again, that doesn’t seem to quite comport with the news organization's explanation about where the bread was found: on an electrical connection inside one of eight above-ground buildings at the site.

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Not to make light of what could be a serious security breach, but the last major carb attack I'm aware of was the work of the dreaded batter pudding hurler of Bexhil-On-Sea, reported on the BBC by The Goons in October, 1954.

gerald karey

Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:01pm
Polar bears eat everything in their path, piss blood, crap souls, and vomit faith.
We need creatures like that guarding the Hadron Collider in the event we find ourselves dealing with an incident like what happened in the Mist. Polar Bears are our only defense against unexpected guests from other dimensions. You can obtain this information when you read the Berenstein Bears books in reverse like my parents did for me every night before bed time.

Gunpowder Tea

jimmy maher

Nov. 7, 2009 at 5:47am
do some dna testing on the breads and catch the sob who PUT it there.

Stanley Kerns

Nov. 7, 2009 at 12:44pm
We need creatures like Polar bears guarding the Hadron Collider . . .
Polar Bears are our only defense against unexpected guests from other dimensions.
/ jimmy maher /
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do some dna testing on the breads and catch the sob who PUT it there
/ Stanley Kerns /
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The mad CERN project

Rutherford studied atoms
bombarding them with a- particles
This idea helped him understand the structure of atoms
Then Devil gave advice to physicists to Bomb particles !
And physicists created LHC
The artful Devil is glad
He again deceived men
Physicists think that LHC is first of all a huge energy
And the Devil laughs
He knows that LHC is first of all Vacuum !
But this he withheld from men
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Socratus Sadovnik

israel socratus

Nov. 13, 2009 at 6:21am
This is what we get for letting FRENCHMEN - with their 3 hour lunches - in on these kinds of things!
Next Up: Bottle of Bordeaux found incorporated into Cyrogenic.....
Actually, I like the French; so...just kidding!

James Staples

Nov. 14, 2009 at 5:29pm
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Jan. 9, 2010 at 2:42am

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