LHC shut down by weasel

Martian

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Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider

A small mammal has sabotaged the world's most powerful scientific instrument.

The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile superconducting machine designed to smash protons together at close to the speed of light, went offline overnight. Engineers investigating the mishap found the charred remains of a furry creature near a gnawed-through power cable.

"We had electrical problems, and we are pretty sure this was caused by a small animal," says Arnaud Marsollier, head of press for CERN, the organization that runs the $7 billion particle collider in Switzerland. Although they had not conducted a thorough analysis of the remains, Marsollier says they believe the creature was "a weasel, probably." (Update: An official briefing document from CERN indicates the creature may have been a marten.)

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider
 
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TimeFlipper

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Actually it was a time-traveller that came back and threw a 6inch nail into that transformer, how dare CERN blame some poor old weasel for doing that...They are the weasels for trying to create those pesky Black Holes on our planet :D
 

Martian

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Actually it was a time-traveller that came back and threw a 6inch nail into that transformer, how dare CERN blame some poor old weasel for doing that...They are the weasels for trying to create those pesky Black Holes on our planet :D
6 inches, huh? :p That's awfully specific. Was it you? :D
 


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