The LHC Is Back Online 123
medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.
its because the olympics are over (Score:5, Funny)
it was really screwing up gravity in canada, so cern was nice enough to demure to the ioc's request and shut off the lhc during the winter olympics
now canadians will have to get used to floating around again
on the plus side their compasses should work again
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:5, Funny)
on the plus side their compasses should work again
Seeing that the north magnetic pole is in Canada I doubt compasses there work like the do elsewhere. Magnetic deviation over that country must be ... significant.
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:3, Funny)
*woosh*
Thanks!
And then onward to full power in 2012! (Score:1, Funny)
Just in time for the end of the world.
Obligatory (Score:1, Funny)
Humour Bot: I said "super collider, but I just met her! And then they made a super collider. Thank you, you've been a great audience."
Announcer: "Humour Bot 510, ladies and gentlemen."
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe Canada paid them to have the puck gravitate over to the US's net for the hockey game.
So THAT's why! (Score:5, Funny)
I was wondering why several places were having earthquakes. Damn you, mad scientists!
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:1, Funny)
There are some attractive poles on the curling team.
My only concern is that... (Score:4, Funny)
Big mistake (Score:5, Funny)
Another Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (Score:3, Funny)
That means they can bring it up to full power in 2012. Anybody want to bet on 12/21/2012?
Re:So THAT's why! (Score:3, Funny)
The nature of reverse causality distortion fields is such that events immediately preceding a bubble are the most affected by it.
We can consider ourselves lucky that the worst is over and that it was only relatively minor quakes.
Furthermore since we can assume that scientists in the future will be able to resolve these issues, it's likely that these quakes will eventually never have happened at all.
Re:So THAT's why! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (Score:4, Funny)
sure i bet you 100000000000000$ that 12/21/2012 will not be the end of the world.
Re:Another Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (Score:3, Funny)
Nah... they will be on holiday then... no real physicist does any research two weeks either side of Christmas as the Relativistic Effects of Santa delivering toys to every child in one night plays havoc with the results...
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:5, Funny)
It you have to use a compass in the bush, then maybe she needs to shave...
Re:So THAT's why! (Score:3, Funny)
perhaps we could just aim the quakes at countries we don't like...
Re:Another Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, who'd be dumb enough to take that bet? I mean, yeah, you just won a fantastillion bucks. And there's no time left to spend it.
Re:Another Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (Score:4, Funny)
Thank you, sir, for killing the joke. That was some mighty efficient humor destruction you did there. Bully good show.
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:2, Funny)
Food for conspiracy theorists: (Score:5, Funny)
It's not the LHC, it's Sarah Palin (Score:4, Funny)
Now insert optional Biden version after this post.