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Is the Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged from the future? Or merely by birds? CNN

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The LHC, the world's largest particle accelerator, has been under repair for more than a year because of an electrical failure in September 2008.

Now, excitement and mysticism are building again around the $10 billion machine as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) gears up to circulate a high-energy proton beam around the collider's 17-mile tunnel. The event should take place this month, said Steve Myers, CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology.

The collider made headlines last week when a bird apparently dropped a "bit of baguette" into the accelerator, making the machine shut down. The incident was similar in effect to a standard power cut, said spokeswoman Katie Yurkewicz. Had the machine been going, there would have been no damage, but beams would have been stopped until the machine could be cooled back down to operating temperatures, she said.

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  • Liz be blazin. Shes definately high, look at the eyes.

  • Well-ahh, everybody knows about the bird, bird bird bird, bird is the word!

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  • I would do her so good

  • most false THAT a dumb flaping slap on my face ... !!!

    NOTHJING OF THESE EXIST ... IS ANOTHER FALSE NOTE

    SIMILAR TO APOLLO 11 AND THE LUNAR FACE HISTORY

  • Both look very high

  • she look high

  • @TheCaptainLulz now that you mention it she sounds pretty baked

  • These time traveler's suck, they've allowed the LHC to operate this entire year and collect so far several inverse femtobarn of data

  • They both look and sound totally High (the women in case) talking about "Big Science" and making it seem a tea party.

  • Rev 9:2 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth;... 4 And it was said unto them that they should not hurt ...but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

  • so if you spent billions of $ and had nathing to show for it...no dark matter, no higgs, no dark energy, no nathing

  • A bird could have got into the LHC through the massive lift (elevator) shafts used to get the equipment underground.

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