A bird carrying a baguette (which quite possibly could be from the future), dropped it's breakfast while flying over a power site on the French side of the LHC.
The resulting Baguette-power transformer collision unfortunately failed to create a higs boson.
It did, however, manage to shut down power to one of the cooling units for the LHC, nearly causing it to overheat. Again.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyon...baguette_b.html
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Baguette causes LHC to nearly overheat (again)
#2
Posted 08 November 2009 - 05:07 PM
What happened last time it nearly overheated? A humming bird with a coconut? :< This is why you never use your LHC while its exposed, folks. Always have protection.
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#3
Posted 08 November 2009 - 05:16 PM
Last time, a copper interconnect providing power to a magnet or something vaporized, causing a severe helium leak. It was considered a catastrophic failure, compared to this "minor nuisance".
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 05:39 PM
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Will it have any impact on the CERN schedule?
There will be no impact on CERN schedule - full recovery has already taken place. It's similar to a power cut – procedures are in place to deal with this sort of thing.
There will be no impact on CERN schedule - full recovery has already taken place. It's similar to a power cut – procedures are in place to deal with this sort of thing.
No worries then.
My question is how a bird managed to carry a baguette anyway.
#6
Posted 09 November 2009 - 02:07 AM
edit: Never mind, I'm sure it was that pidgeon Dick Dastardly was always trying to catch with "Catch that pidgeon now!"
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