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.
Re:Half power for the year? (Score:4, Informative)
If you kill yourself now, you won't have to risk it.
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:4, Informative)
It's not too bad, if you're not covering a lot of distance in a short time, and it's better the farther south you are. Just check the chart and adjust your compass for the declination before you go, and periodically if you're on a long trip.
Of course if you're in the Canadian Shield you also have to contend with magnetite deposits, which can be a much bigger hassle than the declination variance. A compass is still useful in the bush, but it should be one tool among many in your toolkit.
Re:Food for conspiracy theorists: (Score:1, Informative)
Well, given that cosmic rays have been creating them for a long time now, I wouldn't be too worried.
The chances of nothing unusual happening during any sufficiently long time period are pretty low. But I guess the mods goofed up and forgot to mod that post "funny" ...