Four Physicists Arrested After SSC Break-In 49
An anonymous reader writes with a not-unexpected followup to one of the break-ins of the century, when a group of curious scientists decided to see what was left of the uncompleted giant collider project in East . From the article: "A team of four physicists was arrested this morning at the headquarters of the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, MD.
officers from the Department of Homeland Security entered the building around 8:30 a.m. and detained the suspects without
. The group is charged with breaking and entering a secure government facility, destruction of government property, stealing national secrets and parking illegally."
I dont know why (Score:3, Insightful)
I even opened my browser today,
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Actually they weren't arrest because they broke in (Score:1)
It was because they broke out! They came through a functional SSC in another universe, and used the Einstein-Rosen bridge combined with a Quantum Leap Accelerator to cross into this universe.
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and now they need the star gate to get back! (Score:2)
and now they need the star gate to get back!
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An anonymous reader writes with a not-unexpected followup to one of the break-ins of the century, when a group of curious scientists decided to see what was left of the uncompleted giant collider project in East Texas. From the article: "A team of four physicists was arrested this morning at the headquarters of the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, MD. officers from the Department of Homeland Security entered the building around 8:30 a.m. and detained the suspects without . The group is charg
I Hate (Score:3)
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Between my kids and Slashdot, the day is always ruined.
I'll bet you're a load of fun around Christmas time, too.
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Nope. Not Christian.
Neither am I, but that doesn't mean I'm a humorless negative party pooper.
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I'm not humorless, but the posts are.
On the other hand, the OMG!!! PONIES!!! was an *INCREDIBLE* April Fool joke. If the jokes weren't lame, I'd be happy.
You Fail (Score:2)
On the other hand, the OMG!!! PONIES!!!
It's ***PINK*** PONIES. Poser
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is that the time when people drink the blood of that plastic guy on the dashboard?
well, is it??
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I stopped laughing on april 1st a bit over 10 years ago. I think that's when I've got internet.
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Trolldad approves!
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You should have looked at them and said "Nothing!"
or "I hate you."
Stealing national secrets? (Score:2)
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While I feel a bit let down by April Fools Day this year (especially as it ended 23 hours ago here), the "and parking illegally." made me laugh.
Worst. April Fools. Ever. (Score:4, Insightful)
Wake me up when its over.
Sad (Score:1)
An admitted fake, but I think whats more sad is that this could actually be a true news story. Even the absurdity of the parking ticket lends merit to the story. Welcome to the police state.
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I was really surprised when I read the original story that this *wasn't* the outcome. They obviously *DID* trespass. I read nowhere in the original article that they had permission to enter any of those buildings--vacant or not. I have to assume that the fact they scaled a fence to enter leads me to believe that they weren't there on an official tour.
The SSC was killed because of its name (Score:2)
Superconducting Super Collider? That just sounds expensive. So when Congress is looking to save money, that really stands out. Collider sounds to violent as well. If they had called it "Mini-micro concur-er," It would have been whacking up stuff today.
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FermiLab's is called the "Tevatron". Now that's a cool name - Teva and Tron, combining my favorite sandals and 80's Disney sci-fi movie.
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Superaffirmative Particle Consensusbuilder.
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Clearly a prank (Score:2, Funny)
When was the last time four physicists were all at work by 8:30am?
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Not very clever (Score:1)
Seriously, April Fools is overrated now. All the jokes have been done and done again - they are just not funny anymore, some not even in the first instance.
one decade from now (Score:1)
Google and everyone else will have to discount all "news" with a date of 1-5 April, and remove them from search results. Once people figure out that this is happening, criminals will use 1 April to conduct criminal activity and the general populace will begin putting the incorrect date on their "1 April fools" pranks, wreaking even more havoc.
better pay the parking fine or the ppa will boot y (Score:2)
better pay the parking fine or the ppa will boot you and fee you to death..
Glitch? (Score:1)
Oh G*d this is so much fun ;-)
I don't know if anyone else is seeAing this but I am experiencing a glitch in the /. website that allows me to see certain words have a drop down options list for alternative words. The options make such interesting alternate wording that I am currently addicted to reading/editing articles on /.
If you cant see it, here are 3 screen grabs.
http://thestoreindevon.com/forum_files/slash-dot-1.jpg
http://thestoreindevon.com/forum_files/slash-dot-2.jpg
http://thestoreindevon.com/forum_f
Still haven't received it! (Score:2)
I think I know these guys... (Score:2)
A team of four physicists was arrested this morning at the headquarters of the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, MD.
Their names weren't Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj, by any chance were they?