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    Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks

    Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like

    LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    Tom'll be a-flippin'.


    His hair'll be a-floppin'.

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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    Should have chosen Stephen Hawking. This publicity stunt is just bullshit.
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    02/18/09

    @Complexified: Sorry to sound crass, but what would he do? Run over the switch?
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    02/18/09

    @Buckaroo_GitEmSteveDave: That's wrong, and I'm going to hell for laughing at it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/18/09

    @Gann: @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I'm serious. He couldn't even play his own hand of cards on the Holodeck! How is supposed to destroy the universe if he can't call in poker?
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    Image of nachobel nachobel
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    Ok, this is bullshit.
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    02/18/09

    @nachobel: excuse me, FUCKING bullshit.


    Tom Hanks is an actor. You know how many scientists would kill, I mean actually kill to be able to do this? But he's an actor (who is quite good) who is going to be in a terrible film with terrible science and even more terrible "history" based on a book by a terrible (at least in the historical sense, people seem to buy his shit. people also buy the GLOBE.) author, so he gets to turn the LHC back on?


    Fucking hell.

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    Image of bobman1235 bobman1235
    02/18/09

    @nachobel: To be fair, the LHC is a publicly funded project, so some PR and making the masses happy can't hurt. I agree that there are scientists more deserving but sometimes you have to do things to make the masses happy, and this is one of them.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/18/09

    @bobman1235: *cough* Executive compensation limits *cough*.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    I like Tom Hanks and all, but I bet there are leading physicists out there who would cry from happiness if they got to flip that switch.
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    DaVinci Code was entertaining, but it seems like Dan Brown uses a template for his books. They all have similar twists/turns/motifs.


    Like a Britney Spears song.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/18/09

    @admoseremic: Both are good for some mindless entertainment when you don't want to have to do any deep thinking..
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    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    SUCKER!!!


    Everyone knows they've been using the downtime to build a Television Chocolate Camera into the LHC like the one that shrunk Mike Teavee in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."


    The second Tom Hanks pushes the button, the TCC will transport him into a little box, and he too will be 4" tall. Tell me there isn't a single Tom Hanks movie that wouldn't be just a little bit better if he were only 4" tall.

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    02/18/09

    @frigg: "Tell me there isn't a single Tom Hanks movie that wouldn't be just a little bit better if he were only 4" tall."


    Err...umm..."Big"?

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    02/18/09

    @frigg: Actually, if Tom Hanks were only 4" tall in "Castaway," the ship at the end would likely have missed him, and he would have died at sea and been eaten by fish. Arguably, though, that still would've been a better movie.
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    02/18/09

    @bosskev: Yeah, that might be problematic, but only because hightest discrimination still dominates promotion policies in many corporations. One has to wonder, would Tom Hanks have been promoted quite so rapidly at that advertising firm in "Big" if he were only 4" tall?


    However, given the general suspension of disbelief throughout the film, I think the audience would not only have accepted a 4" advertising executive, in many ways, a 4" advertising executive promoted to the top tiers of a company only days after being hired at an entry level position would have made for an even more sympathetic character. "Big" starring a 4" tall Tom Hanks would have energized height-challenged workers much the way "Working Girl" energized dopey-voiced bimbos in the workplace following its groundbreaking release.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    Will Ian McKellan be there as well playing Sir Leigh Teabagin? I mean, he is a knight, and that seems more of a knight's task.


    Or if it's Tom Hanks, can he have a donkey with him from his character in Bachelor Party?

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    02/18/09

    @Buckaroo_GitEmSteveDave: Teabagin. Hehe.
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    02/18/09

    @Buckaroo_GitEmSteveDave: Ah, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to have him there as Magneto...


    Plus if the world is destroyed then at least it was at the hands of a supervillain.

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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    02/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: Or Gandalf, "Come LHC, let's show these subatomic particles the meaning of haste."
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    02/18/09

    @admoseremic: Dang, Gizmodo glitch. Sorry for double post.
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    02/18/09

    @admoseremic: "Dang, Gizmodo glitch. Sorry for double post."


    Maybe it was caused by the test sequence they just ran on the LHC..

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    02/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: OMG, I just watched the RiffTrax version of X-Men2, and they kept calling Magneto Cerebro and vice-versa. Hilarious.


    @admoseremic: Look to the East on the third day after you start the LHC.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    If the LHC turns out to be the biggest publicity stunt for the movie, this would definitely go in the Guinness.
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    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    Well if he does get sucked through a black hole at least Wilson will keep him company...
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    02/18/09

    In reply to Large Hadron Collider's Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
    Really? Stolen antimatter from CERN is actually in this movie?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/18/09

    @OGC: How do you "steal" antimatter? Wouldn't it annihilate any vessel that you try to carry it in?
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    02/18/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Magnetic containment..
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    Image of Benjammn Benjammn
    02/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake:

    Indeed. It's called a Penning trap. Basically, any antimatter that has been able to be produced so far has been charged, so you can use a magnetic containment field in vacuum to ensure it doesn't annihilate. Although I wonder how hard it is to get it in there.....
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    02/18/09

    @Benjammn: Better than The Da Vinci isn't saying a heck of a lot. And destroying the Vatican with antimatter? Even Crichton never came up with that one, and he was all about science being misused.
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    02/18/09

    @daveNYC: That's because the raptors were whispering in his ear...
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    12/10/08

    In reply to Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like
    Thank the universe the black hole didn't come out from those joints.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    12/10/08

    @vgart:
    ironically, thanks to a joint, I finally understood the universe and black holes
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    12/10/08

    In reply to Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like
    If the Hulk were a physicist, I bet a dollar he'd say "HULK SMASH PROTONS!"


    *embarassed*

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/10/08

    In reply to Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like
    Did we already discuss if this was sabotage?
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    Image of falandil falandil
    12/10/08

    In reply to Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like
    It's going to take until June to fix it? Wow. that damage must be much mroe extensive than the pictures show...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/10/08

    @falandil: It also takes weeks to re-cool and then they have to wait to start it up, which requires power, to make sure the fixes are correct.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/10/08

    In reply to Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like
    someone's not getting their Christmas bonus this year
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