LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure 338
known_ID writes "The Large Hadron Collider — the most puissant particle-punisher ever assembled by the human race — has suffered another major power failure, knocking not only the atom smasher itself but even its associated websites offline."
Re:Future doesn't want to be discovered? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, but that was BS. Fact is, collisions of higher energies occur in the upper atmosphere with a much higher frequency than they will in the LHC, and have been for billions of years. The LHC iself is only expected to operate for a few tens of years by comparison.
Hard science is hard. There is a lot that needs to go right for this to work, and any of apparently dozens upon dozens of things can make it hiccup. No spooky explanations necessary.
Re:I'm writing this comment from 2017 (Score:4, Insightful)
Because his communication method is via Slashdot. He's creating a series of profiles, one for every year, that allow him to access and communicate with Slashdot in that time period. Duh.
Re:Future doesn't want to be discovered? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not a physicist or whatever sort of engineer one is to build a giant collider. However, this strikes me the same as saying "company X has 10 servers and they manage to keep them working fine, why does Google have problems? the only major difference is scale!" Well, yes, yes it is.
Re:HEY DOUCHE CMDRTACO -- atomsmasher IS NOT A WOR (Score:5, Insightful)
Alew (Score:3, Insightful)
Say snotty engineers that cant do shit right
Hey, the damage was on a surface electricity line. Which was most likely installed by the power company running that part of the grid. I am sure no scientist bothered to work on it.
Re:Take it easy people ... (Score:3, Insightful)
...Yes, it cost $6b.
To put this in perspective, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle program cost $5.6b, and the resulting machine sucks.
Which is the bigger waste?
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Re:What do you want, a medal? (Score:4, Insightful)
That's the most plausible explanation I've read yet for why Obama got the Nobel Peace Price, and it manages to maintain the prize's legitimacy! (such that it has)
Re:engineers vs. scientists (Score:4, Insightful)
Academics don't even see failure like this as a bad thing
That's just not true. An experiment that provides data is never a failure. An experiment that does not provide data due to technical problems is a failure. It's a waste of time and resources, scientists hate that.
Re:HEY DOUCHE CMDRTACO -- atomsmasher IS NOT A WOR (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Future doesn't want to be discovered? (Score:3, Insightful)
Fact is, collisions of higher energies occur in the upper atmosphere with a much higher frequency than they will in the LHC, and have been for billions of years.
Well why don't they just build a cloud chamber up in the atmosphere then?
Wow, that sounded a lot better in my head. :-) Never mind.
Re:The sign of the failure of particle physics (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah, it's worse than that -- many of the structural elements are made of steel, smelted, cast, and machined using processes that go back even further than Diesel.
OMG y dont we kill these jiants insted of stand on there sholdiers!
If you think that's bad, the guys using the LHC are Homo Sapiens. That's like 200000 years old, it should be run by iPhones, or something...
Re:engineers vs. scientists (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, because I'm sure no engineers worked on the LHC. The whole thing was built by a bunch of theoretical physicists. ::rollseyes::
Compared to Fermilab? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Future doesn't want to be discovered? (Score:3, Insightful)