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LHC Shutdown once again

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06-Nov-2009, 12:12 PM #1
LHC Shutdown once again
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11...dump_incident/


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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

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06-Nov-2009, 03:16 PM #2
Once wonders if they'll ever get that thing operating full speed.
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06-Nov-2009, 10:02 PM #3
Check the odds given in Vegas, might be a safer bet.

Surely someone is betting on it.
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Talking Live Feed From LHC
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Now they're making joke pages?
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22-Nov-2009, 01:14 PM #6
Hi,

The bird-bread incident is long past (about 2 weeks ago), and the LHC has move forward from it very rapidly.

-- Tom
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Well, until the next bird...
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23-Nov-2009, 09:45 AM #8
Large Hadron Collider progress delights researchers.

Researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they are delighted with the progress made since the machine restarted on Friday.

-- Tom
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