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    Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished

    LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History

    Ancient AMD Athlon 64 Beats Intel Atom While Using Less Power
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    Image of GundamX67 GundamX67
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    They should turn it into a museum, or something along the line. Like you said, it's historic, and it's one of the crown jewels of science. It shouldn't go the way of other scientific buildings.

    Gizmodo: Lets make a petition to save the Bevatron and turn it into a historic building. Something for future generations to visit.
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    Image of GC GC
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    Super collider? But I just met her!
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    Image of Jitty Jitty
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    Speaking of large super colliers. I heard there are worm holes that exist on the nano scale. We could extract the worm holes but to do that we would truly need a SUPER collider. So big that it would need to be built in space. The collisions in that supercollider would force the wormholes out and we could maybe stabilize them or enlarge them.
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    Image of Seather Seather
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    The anti neutron was discovered there as well.

    I'm sure if the LHC were to be decomissioned, it would be used as storage for a few years like the Bevatron was in it's last days.
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    Image of GilmerCrane GilmerCrane
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    Don't forget that they discovered the anti neutron there as well! It's not just an atom smasher, it's a linear accelerator too. There is one just up the hill though(ALS).
    http://www.als.lbl.gov/
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    Image of vmspionage vmspionage
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    This thing looks like it belongs in an episode of Venture Brothers

    The Monarch: (finally inside Dr. Venture's laboratory) My god, look at this place. It's like a museum of failure.
    Dr. Girlfriend: It's almost depressing.
    The Monarch: Here I am, in the belly of the beast, and I don't even care. I don't even feel like taking a whiz on this. I used to DREAM of taking a whiz on this!
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    Image of DorkRawk DorkRawk
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    Atoms to atoms, dust to dust....
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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Bev' last night...
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    Image of dallasmay2 dallasmay2
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    How long will it take to decide that the LHC is obsolete? Probably not even 50 years. Once we find that there is no Higgs, that will be the end of high energy particle physics as we know it.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    It's a frakkin' atom-smasher!

    Do you know why you never hear anyone complain about all those useless vacant atom-smashers that litter strip malls? Because atom-smashers are not useless.

    That's like saying "I think I'm going to clear out my collection of laser pistols. I just can't think of when I'd ever want to use an atomic ray gun and these blasters are just gathering dust."

    If they don't want the atom smasher, I'll take it. Hell, I'll live in it. Who DOESN"T want to say that they use an atom smasher for a house?!
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: actually I can see a point where it would in fact outlive its usefulness.

    I am sure it costs a hell of a lot more at this point to maintain it, than it does to build a new one.

    That being said, it WOULD be cool to live in one. Kinda like living in a old missile silo (which I would kill to do if my budget warranted it.)
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/09/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Here is how you take care of maintenance costs for an atom smasher:

    "Hello. UN - give me a trillion dollars or I will unleash the might of my Atom Smasher on the people of London. You have 24 hours to comply."
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You had your pinky in the corner of your mouth when you wrote that didn't you.
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    Image of kuriakos kuriakos
    07/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: It only works if you do it in a slick European accent. Preferably a Hans Gruber-esque German accent.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/09/09

    @kuriakos: I do many things in a slick European accent. Especially Milanese supermodels.
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    Image of Purple Umpteenth Purple Umpteenth
    07/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: it's like the SR-71 Blackbird. newer stuff came out that's cheaper to operate and has more capability. And doesn't turn into a cranky old bastard who spits lubricant.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    wasn't Bevatron the code name for the fleshlight when it was still in the prototype phase?
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    Image of PeterNincompoop PeterNincompoop
    07/09/09

    @nutbastard:

    I thought the fleshlight's code name was "the Mojave Experiment"....right?

    By the way, seeing my poor little comment all grayed out down there make me sad
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/09/09

    @PeterNincompoop: No, that was just the codename for adding suction to the fleshlight.
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    Image of PeterNincompoop PeterNincompoop
    07/09/09

    @Lite: is on a boat.:

    Hooray!!! My comment is darker!

    ...Or the codename for adding "suck"-tion to all windows vista "capable" machines....
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/09/09

    @nutbastard: I wouldn've gone with snatch-handle myself.
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    Image of madog madog
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    ... A Chinese knock off, "Giant Hadron Smasher"? Complete with pictures of Obama and the Hulk as celebrity endorsers.

    ......I have no idea why. (side note: this tiny comment bubble is tough to navigate on my phone. I would have imagined that editing it would produce a larger one, but perhaps I'm just missing something).
    .... I thought of another... The Max Headroom Collider....? Anyone?
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    Image of CaptainHoratioMcCallister CaptainHoratioMcCallister
    07/09/09

    In reply to Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished
    It is a shame that Tesla's labs have fallen into disrepair while Edison's have become monuments to his greatness. Tesla is one of the most under appreciated scientists of all time. Not fully related to the post, but saddening, nonetheless.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    So who was responsible for the welding? Was it the same guy who crossed the streams of his Star Wars and Star Trek references...?
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    This is ridiculous. I built my small hadron collider with off the shelf parts, plus a Ron Popiel Pocket Fisherman for true Rube Goldergian controls, for a grand total of $72.95


    And the only thing it did was create a small black hole that made a hissing noise for about 10 seconds, and then Tom Servo's ass got stuck and stopped the leak. Humanity saved by robot buttocks once again.

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