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Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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CmdrTaco
on Sat Aug 02, 2008 09:45 AM
from the because-we-can dept.
from the because-we-can dept.
mactard submitted a collection of insanely beautiful pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. I've always had a warm place for amazing photgraphs, and these really don't disappoint. Science really is beautiful sometimes.
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3rd photo (Score:5, Funny)
That 3rd photo looks an awful lot like a stargate.
I'm assuming its a shot facing downwards, thus the pool of water or whatever that is, but it just looks cool.
Re:3rd photo (Score:5, Interesting)
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The first comment on the article is hilarious. (Score:5, Funny)
"This thing is going to kill us all."
Re:The first comment on the article is hilarious. (Score:5, Funny)
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Don't cross the streams (Score:5, Informative)
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
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This looks like something from Half Life (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot + page of high res photos (Score:5, Funny)
.. this can't end well
Valve will sue (Score:4, Funny)
this is clearly copyright infringement.
Obsoletely Amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Obsoletely Amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
+1 on amazing.
I don't know how it works exactly, but it's massive, incredibly complicated and absolutely stunning. Something of a beacon to children becoming interested in science, I'm sure.
A toast to the brains behind it and those who got it funded.
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the most impressive thing (Score:5, Insightful)
Blueprint for an alien invasion (Score:5, Funny)
Search for exotic particles? Yeah right!
Re:Blueprint for an alien invasion (Score:5, Funny)
If this wasn't designed by inter-galactic aliens, i'll eat my hat.
I don't think eating tin foil is that great an idea...
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.. about the size of a pea. (Score:4, Funny)
Holy Shit! (Score:5, Funny)
Picture 5, I just spotted the Higgs Boson! Oh no wait, hold on. False alarm folks. Just a dead pixel.
ET technology (Score:4, Insightful)
machine porn vs beautiful science (Score:4, Insightful)
The tools are beautiful objects, to be sure. But what makes beautiful science is elegant, concise, and simple (within the context) descriptions of how the universe works.
Re:Arise! (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, it does run linux (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:I wanted to try and find (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:System Shock (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:The "Time Projection Chamber" (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Mon Dieu! (Score:5, Funny)
This is for sure the stuff that sets Man apart from Animal!
Oh, please. The rats keep trying to build a cyclotron in my basement.
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