Jul 9 2009Just When You Thought We Were Safe: LHC
That's right folks, the people over at CERN are getting ready to fire the Large Hadron Collider back up this fall. And, well, it's been nice knowing you. Most of you anyways. Okay, just a few of you. Kidding, I love you all. GIMME KISSIES!
To that end, CERN gave the LHC's massive network a thorough stress test at the end of last month. The Collider sent out data to 11 computer centers across Europe, Asia, and North America, which in turn relayed the data to 140 locations in 33 countries to be crunched. A whopping 4 GB a second was cranked out from the LHC, though researchers predict that, while operating, the LHC will only send out around 1.3 GB of data. In other words, the Large Hadron Collider's network should be good to go.
If all goes well, we should hear more about the LHC in the near future, as it ramps up for it's firing in October.
You know, this reminds me of the time when I was a kid that I was so afraid there was a monster in my closet that I couldn't fall asleep. And then, exhausted, I finally passed out only to be abducted by aliens and viciously probed. Yeah, this is just like that.
Large Hadron Collider completes massive stress test [dvice]
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Reader Comments
1. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 12:09 PM
Nice picture of Megatron's A**hole.
2. marge - July 9, 2009 12:10 PM
CRAP!
3. catch22 - July 9, 2009 12:10 PM
KA BOOM
instant black hole
@1... no its a goates
4. STOMPY - July 9, 2009 12:13 PM
@1
LOL, I mean jolly good ole chap that was a comical comment indeed! FTMFW!
I'm gonna start drinking now. If the world is going to end I might as well be drunk for the last 3 months of it!
5. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 12:13 PM
I thought it was broke for good. Oh well.
6. livingjetlag - July 9, 2009 12:14 PM
It's the flux capacitor. Now we just need a giant underground DeLorean.
7. FDSY - July 9, 2009 12:15 PM
I have nothing to worry about. I can escape a black hole
IT'S CALLED AN EINSTEIN-ROSEN BRIDGE PEOPLE!!! And I got one.
8. Dinosaur Rex - July 9, 2009 12:24 PM
I predict thousands of suicides, and they'll be all for a good reason
BLACKHOLES!! who'd want to get sucked by those blackholes!!
9. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 12:25 PM
@7, that was YOU who won the bid?
10. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 12:30 PM
@8
I got suck into your blackhole last night. Felt pretty good. Could've used some lube though.
11. Timbo - July 9, 2009 12:33 PM
When are they gonna put these things on the market.
I could use a Large Hadron Collider in my backyard...use it to cook some burgers...have a barbeque...
12. STOMPY - July 9, 2009 12:44 PM
man, ever since GFS brought up pork chop sandwhiches I can't get GI Joe paradoys out of my head... On one side I want to post a funny witty comment, but on the other side I just want to keep quoting those parodys....
13. naas is drunk this morning & doesn't get hangovers - July 9, 2009 12:45 PM
GUNS DON"T KILL PEOPLE ...but this probably will.
GW I live about 20 mins away from fermilab(once I get back to oz) so I can assure you when a black hole starts forming I will try to scream loud enough to warn you
14. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 12:45 PM
@12, so you decided to do neither?
15. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 12:46 PM
@STOMPY
http://www.porkchopjohns.com/PCS_Pic.jpg
Yummy
16. naas is drunk this morning & doesn't get hangovers - July 9, 2009 12:47 PM
^ just stole FDSY's Einstein Rosen bridge only to learn it's made out of legos.
Strangley, it makes a great trampoline & I don't want to give it bavk
17. naas is drunk this morning & doesn't get hangovers - July 9, 2009 12:48 PM
strangely , and back
"bartender, right here!"
18. STOMPY - July 9, 2009 12:50 PM
@14
Ya know, I was thinking just that as I was posting...
@GFS
Do they actually have Pork Chop sandwiches where you are from and if so where do I go to get it!!
19. Adam - July 9, 2009 12:58 PM
Our only hope, is that the large hadron collider kills us all before they make a porno about it entitled "Large Hardon Collider"
20. FDSY - July 9, 2009 1:00 PM
@ 16
HAHAHAHA
You have but stolen my decoy made of legos. Why would i keep the ERB in a safe behind one of my many nude self portraits?
the REAL ERB is safe in a place only I know the location. Enjoy bouncing on your trampoline as your sucked into a vortex of death. Or possibly a vortex of imagination.
21. Oh Snap! Guy - July 9, 2009 1:05 PM
I bet the LHC uses a MM/DD/YYYY format.
22. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 1:07 PM
@STOMPY
Yup. There's a little diner called The Bridgehouse that's a couple blocks from my house. Very good pork chop sandwiches. I usually get the country fried steak.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=the+bridge+house+restaurant&near=Cincinnati,+OH&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&view=text&latlng=8524759820722035622
23. LHC - July 9, 2009 1:13 PM
Now this is a collider!!!!11
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com
24. naas is drunk this morning & doesn't get hangovers - July 9, 2009 1:15 PM
@20 well I was distracted by those nude photos, they're more distracting than sports scores on cleavage I tell ya
25. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 1:16 PM
Random question, but does anyone remember the imposter saga on Geekologie? Oh, now THOSE were the days.
26. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 1:17 PM
Or better yet 'the clone wars.' :)
27. Stuey - July 9, 2009 1:18 PM
AKA Skynet
28. naas wears a nametag that reads LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 1:19 PM
@25 no, just what are you talking about
......the saga continues
29. FDSY - July 9, 2009 1:33 PM
@ 24
FINALLY!!! Someone understands the reason for the safe being behind my nude self portraits.
Everyone was all "Why would put it behind there? Wouldn't they just be drawn to it by it's majesty?"
No one understood it's distracting qualities. I thank you sir.
30. rehdekcufI - July 9, 2009 1:39 PM
This story reminds me of those Marvin the Martian cartoons - Where's the Kaboom. There was one where he blew away most of the moon and was left hanging from the corner of a now crescent moon. This collider is gonna Kaboom and we won't even know it.
And the little martian kids will wave their 6 arms in the air and shout with glee at the show in the sky...
31. Oh Snap! Guy - July 9, 2009 1:45 PM
I for one welcome our hadron collider overlords.
32. AdamG - July 9, 2009 2:14 PM
I hope they give us at least an hour warning before starting up this machine so we have time to go on Doomsday benders.
33. naas is drunk this morning & doesn't get hangovers - July 9, 2009 3:44 PM
@FDSY yes, the family still doesn't get it, but I keep telling them... "you're welcome"
34. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 4:00 PM
@31, Damn Hippy
35. Ollie Williams - July 9, 2009 5:06 PM
@34
/nod
36. Peachstar - July 9, 2009 5:11 PM
Switzerland will kill the whole planet with their blackhole. They take revenge for the UBS. xD
37. Daisy - July 9, 2009 9:36 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was at the enchantment under the see dance, and went into a phone booth to call the operator to get the time. While he was in there some other ruffians lock him in the phone booth with one of the tridents decorating the dance hall.
38. Ciao - July 10, 2009 1:20 PM
oh goody, someone invented the universe's bung hole
39. Captain Garlock Simon - July 11, 2009 9:03 PM
Doing the impossible, seeing the invisible, touching the untouchable, breaking the unbreakable!
I, for one, WELCOME OUR NEW POSITRON OVERLORDS!
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!
40. some black guy - July 11, 2009 9:37 PM
@37 dont u mean the movie Back to the future part 2??