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

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    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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    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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    Image of RoninianHoon RoninianHoon
    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    If they did find something mind bending and universe altering are you naive enough to think they would tell us as a whole without waiting to phase it in? The world would not function right with a drastic change as such. To many people like the power they have over the masses, and will not give it up so easily...
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    Image of Tired_ Tired_
    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    21 million bucks for a single joint!? I'd never pay more than $5.
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    11/17/08

    @Tired_: I have spent more than $5 and <$21 Million. It was well worth it, though.


    Try it sometime.

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    11/17/08

    @CYST!: I bid 21,000,001 Bob.
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    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    Someone needs a ColdHeat Soldering Iron!
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    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    Maybe they should have hired Joe the Welder?
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    11/17/08

    @ideaman2020: No, it's Jack the Welder.
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    11/17/08

    @ripfire: Tig the Welder?
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    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    The LHC is turning out to be world's most expensive fail. However, if it ever ends up working I hope it just does something rediculous. Like it gets up to full speed, they make the collision, and it just produces a giant piece of shit. And there's this humongous shit just right there in the middle of the LHC, and they'll spend a good few years trying to figure out why that would happen.
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    11/17/08

    @Substance_D: It would be awesome that, when they turn it on, everybody would start spelling ridiculous with two "i"'s again.
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    11/17/08

    @LoganSix: Maybe when they turn it on, it will create a singularity that sucks all the humor out of gadget blog comments. Kinda like you just did.


    I personally don't believe in the Higgs Boson, and would find it hilarious if the LHC did something completely random. It's either that, or it will reproduce the same information other colliders have already given us just at a slightly higher resolution.

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    11/17/08

    @Gann: that was far less fun than the "i" thing. I don't know what to think about your comment.
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    11/17/08

    @Substance_D: All I could think of was that MUST have been a reference to the infinite improbability drive...
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    11/17/08

    @CYST!: I'm sorry, I woke up on the snarky side of the bed this morning. I'll stop assaulting the grammer/spelling police.
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    11/17/08

    @Gann: Well maybe when they get the LHC online the snarky side of your bed will be snuffed out of existence and you'll never wake up on it again... ;)
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    11/17/08

    In reply to LHC's $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
    Cold solder? Pfft. Noob.
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