Topic: Large Hadron Collider nearly ready

[sam]

I'm not convinced about that article... no one here is seemingly worrying.

[mistybear]

It's not really surprising that someone would try this, but I doubt they would be successful.

[sam]

if they got in, then it would be to an unsecured desktop machine that would not be connected to anything important.

[Clive]

I'm not convinced about that article... no one here is seemingly worrying.

Oh come on Sam.  If it's in the newspapers then it MUST be true!   

[Simon]

What really happened last week...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html   

[sam]

LHC electrical failure will keep it down for 2+ months

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7626944.stm

Looks like an electrical connection between two magnets shorted out, causing a failure which allowed about a ton of liquid helium to escape. The helium is what cools the magnets to near absolute zero, and without it the magnets lose their superconducting ability.

[mistybear]

What really happened last week...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html  

Is that real?  I came across that last week sometime, I think, I didn't think it was real, but a joke. 

[Simon]

I think it's probably a joke, MB.  The only black hole created last week was by the banking industry. 

[mistybear]

Thanks Simon. I'm glad I didn't make a complete twit of myself by posting it then.     

[sam]

its a very good joke... also if that had happened, which it wont... by the time I wrote this post bye bye planet.

[mistybear]

That's very reassuring, Sam.     

[sam]

you could always try: http://largehardoncollider.com/

The LHC is expected to become the world's largest and highest energy penile accelerator ever assembled. Expected to penetrate new areas, the LHC will produce high speed, head-on collisions between beams of yonic and phallic particles.

[mistybear]

  

[Simon]