Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country 152
necro81 writes "Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron's heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces and investigates, and it just so happens that Brookhaven National Laboratory outside NYC has one to spare. But how do you transport a delicate, 15-m diameter, 600-ton superconducting magnet halfway across the country? Very carefully."
Hello datacenters (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hello datacenters (Score:5, Funny)
UPS (Score:2, Funny)
UPS and lots of bubble wrap!
Wonder what they collected? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hello datacenters (Score:3, Funny)
don't worry, I saw it this morning. It, and the truck, was hanging from a steel railroad underpass.
Storage ring, right... (Score:3, Funny)
That's just a cover story. They're really moving the Stargate.
There's a joke there, but I'm not touching it. (Score:2, Funny)
re: Like most hung things,...it is easier to take via water...
There's a joke there, but I'm not touching it.
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That's what she said!
Oh wait, I done goofed on myself if I were a guy. I musta got that joke meme wrong somehow... ;>)
Re:Wonder what they collected? (Score:4, Funny)
Why are all these people tailgating me?
Need to move a ring? (Score:4, Funny)
Get a hobbit to do it. Its the only way.
Coyote Road Services (Score:4, Funny)
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