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November 6, 2009

Birdy bread-bomber’s shenanigans shut the LHC …

Filed under: Merseyrail, Not Merseyrail — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 3:31 pm
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In an incident almost as bizarre as the recent adverse weather excuses used by Merseyrail …

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher’s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. (source)

Thanks to PopSci.com and El Reg for the story.

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