Comments on: Transformer Glitch Halts LHC Operations

By: transformer

transformer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:42:36 +0000

was searching on the “transformer”, saw your “transformer movie information”, great, I like the movie.

By: alphonso

alphonso — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:27:06 +0000

Damn & blast it!!
I was hoping to get time off for being sucked into a black hole!!
Can't anyone get anything right?

By: Ayti

Ayti — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:49:30 +0000

Well, looks like there's a (black) hole in an LHC helium coolant line so the whole sector will have to be warmed up for repairs. At minimum two months of downtime so planet Earth won't be destroyed in the immediate future.

I guess I'll postpone that end-of-the-world vacation.

By: btw

btw — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:54:26 +0000

Paraphrasing the first Star Wars movie, "They've shut down the main reactor. We're doomed."

By: Sili

Sili — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:30:58 +0000

Because Fraiser likes them better.

(They aren't – you're imagining things.)

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:14:36 +0000

Why is Raven and Rey's smiles larger than mine?

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:13:36 +0000

::) :O :{}

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:12:31 +0000

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By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:11:47 +0000

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:11:17 +0000

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:00:45 +0000

the headline lead me to believe that a Transformer named Glitch (presumably a Decepticon) had busted into the LHC and started shootin' up the place. i'm glad to hear that is not the case.

By: Ayti

Ayti — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:24:04 +0000

These bridges you speak of . . . . how can I be sure the black holes won't swallow them too?

I think you're trying to fool us.

-R C Hoagland

By: Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:27:31 +0000

"As long as we are all asleep when the deadly black holes are created on the LHCâ€¦we won't know what hit us"

If you really think it's possible for the entire world to be asleep while it gets destroyed, I've got a bridge to sell you that you'll love.

For that matter if you think the LHC can destroy us, I've got a bridge you'd really like.

By: GregT

GregT — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:19:54 +0000

"caused temperatures to rise to over 4 Kelvin"

Wow! must have been t-shirts on for the team!

Still – for a machine this complex, the whole startup process has gone incredibly smoothly… and I suppose this kind of hiccup is inevitable.

The LHC must be such a cool place to work!!!

By: serenity

serenity — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:21:49 +0000

Hmm, several 100 orbits? Are they moving them at way subliminal speed? :s
I thought they were moving at at least 450 GeV (yes, I do know GeV isn't speed).

By: RL

RL — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:45:53 +0000

Its been almost a week since the LHC was started. Until today I had only heard that everything was successful. Why did it take so long for this news to come out?

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:20:03 +0000

As long as we are all asleep when the deadly black holes are created on the LHC…we won't know what hit us

By: Raven

Raven — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:06:14 +0000

oh no! Now we are doomed. LHC will glitch us to the death!

By: muffin

muffin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:40:06 +0000

black hole?doomsday?

By: Ayti

Ayti — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:53:12 +0000

Now do you see what a cascade of microscopic blackholes will do to a transformer?

Wait'll Hoagland gets ahold of this!

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:17:21 +0000

I predicted that would happen

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:15:46 +0000

Ha, that's what they get for not taking gravity into account when they built their super-collider!

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:38:14 +0000

Even Microsoft Windows have glitches why not LHC ? Keep up the good work folks.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:51:00 +0000

i agree with that quote. that is a huge machine. i wasnt surprised at all that the LHC had some glitch because any machine could hav a glitch. luckly they found that glitch