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Monday, 9 November, 2009, 15:55

CERN power cut caused by bread crumbs


It was a bit of “fowl” play that caused CERN’s power failure last week.  Yes, fowl—as in a bird.

CERN, the European particle physics lab underneath the Swiss-French border in Geneva, says a passing bird dropped a “bit of baguette” into an external part of the Large Hadron Collider, causing a short circuit.

The small pieces of bread caused the LHC’s temperature to warm slightly from absolute zero.

CERN says the problem was no more serious than a normal power failure.
 

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jon
Thursday, 12 November, 2009 10:10 [ 1 ]

You really expect people to believe this? Common who do they think the general public is a bunch of toothless hillbillies living in a shack somewhere? They’ve blundered money and are willing to make up lame excuses to keep their job/jobs. These people are responsible for revealing truth in science and physics not make up excuses. They have investors that they must be accountable and are sick of asking for money but common a bird? Ok the 1st time it was the accelerator was getting to hot, then it was hackers, now its birds dropping french baguettes on some wiring? Wait so what their saying is someone living on a boat can make better wire connections then a think tank of over 1000 people and engineers?

Elena
Thursday, 12 November, 2009 12:34 [ 2 ]

Unbelieveable! I want that job! To actually make money doing nothing…

Joseph
Friday, 13 November, 2009 05:47 [ 3 ]

lol - greedy humans going for the money instead of making the world a better place to live

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