Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 229
gaijinsr writes "The damage done in what CERN calls the 'S34 Incident' (and what other people call a major explosion in the cryogenics system) is much more serious than originally admitted: The earliest possible restart date is late summer next year, but with some proposed improvements to avoid repetitions of the incident, it looks more like 2010. They kept this pretty quiet up to now, not the kind of information policy I would expect from CERN."
Yay! (Score:5, Funny)
The universe is saved for a couple of more years! Now's the time to form our new national holiday "Beat the Hell out of the Atheist Murderous Universe-destroying Physicists Day".
My prediction (Score:4, Funny)
bloody self-centered Amercians (Score:0, Funny)
Late summer next year?
Well, since I'm australian, that puts the date in February 2009. That's not far off.
Oh, you arrogant, pig-headed Americans meant your summer? pfft...talk about self-centered
Re:Fortune cookie - fitting (Score:4, Funny)
Cut 'em some slack (Score:5, Funny)
It didn't explode, (Score:2, Funny)
Summer Blockbusters (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Won't Ever Work (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yay! (Score:1, Funny)
Whatever. (Score:5, Funny)
We will never see it work (Score:4, Funny)
LHC is obviously a doomsday machine. Turning it on will immediately destroy humankind in all the parallel universes where it works. Therefore, in the universes where we stay alive, we will always see it fail. The failure proves the parallel structure of the universe.
Re:My prediction (Score:1, Funny)
Will that really help? Dec. 22 where the LHC is also happens to be Dec. 21 in south America where that date comes from.
Some More Random Points (Score:3, Funny)
1) The failure of the flux capacitor was actually the real cause of the shutdown (although this will never be released due to the humiliation that would be heaped upon them for such a simple mistake - see below).
2) Apparently no one told them that when you accelerated it beyond 88 mph (within the limit of their test runs) it would create a hole in time/space through which a moderately-priced novelty sports car (or something of equivalent mass) could travel.
3) They are currently searching 1985, 1955, and 1885 for the components that they lost as a result of the failure. They also plan to search 2015. Eventually.
4) They are currently in contract negotiations with Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and various other experts in the field. They expect that once the contracts are finalized the solution will be achieved between 108 and 118 minutes.
Re:"Slated for Late Summer 2009" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
You mean like Hicks and Bosons getting hot and heavy under pressure?