LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million 163
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from the black-holes-don't-come-cheap dept.
from the black-holes-don't-come-cheap dept.
ThanatosMinor writes "September's quench at the Large Hadron Collider is going to cost CERN at least $21 million and delay future collisions until June of 2009 at the earliest. Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon."
I'm starting to believe... (Score:5, Funny)
That's a bargain for a doomsday device! (Score:5, Funny)
Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices are a lot more expensive and they haven't even been invented yet!
When its back up... (Score:4, Funny)
Perspective (Score:4, Funny)
If you worked at the LHC you too would be happy to hear "The repair will cost at least $21 million."... ... If the last comment before that was "Dear God it's all falling appart!".
Re:First ouch! (Score:5, Funny)
That would be lame. Imagine this dialogue:
Nerd guy: 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon and...'
Beautiful girl: 'Damn... So I have to use all the time that I have to make sex to all those non-nerd guys over there. Bye!'
zzzzzz (Score:4, Funny)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7734251.stm [bbc.co.uk]
I like their quote "The cost of the work will fall within the Cern's existing budget" though it does make me idly speculate on the size of their budget and how large a secret fortress I could build with it....
Re:I'm starting to believe... (Score:4, Funny)
This reminds me of my early childhood, when I bet my sister that no matter how many of her cookies she gave me I'd be able to eat them all.
Erm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When its back up... (Score:5, Funny)
We slay an indeterminate number of dancing angels?
I mean, if they're line dancing, then fair enough.
Re:First ouch! (Score:5, Funny)
That would be lame. Imagine this dialogue:
Nerd guy: 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon and...'
Beautiful girl: 'Damn... So I have to use all the time that I have to make sex to all those non-nerd guys over there. Bye!'
No you've got it all wrong. Its 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon, but with my new flux capacitor I can bring two person through into a parallel universe across the twenty-fifth dimension. One of them has to be me, because only I can control it and I was thinking perhaps you... but no it would mean staying in a confined space without light for hours
several hours later: Gosh this parallel world is the one just like ours but where the laws of physics are different enough that the LHC didn't make a black hole'
Dimensions (Score:5, Funny)
Re:CERN, thanks for the birthday gift! (Score:1, Funny)
It'll be the greatest fireworks display you were ever embedded in.
(Yes, I know nothing will happen, don't worry your stupditity-detectors)
Re:zzzzzz (Score:5, Funny)
"how large a secret fortress I could build with it...."
You'll can probably build some undergroung fortress with some 20km or 30km of radius, I guess. With a doomsday machine still on budget!
A dream come true! (Score:3, Funny)
Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon.
It's been my life long dream to experience an Event Horizon. The only shame is I won't be able to contemplate such a great experience afterwards. ;)
I bet they're kicking themselves (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First ouch! (Score:5, Funny)
I can see that you have given this matter altogether too much consideration.
Re:Need funding? "Hey, who's got a spare wrench?" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First ouch! (Score:4, Funny)
Exactly. Besides, the live webcam [cyriak.co.uk] looks fine.
Re:Lies Kill (Score:3, Funny)
What's with everyone blaming kdawson? I thought it was a scientifically proven fact that KDawson never, ever reads the stories he publishes here, much less writes them.
Re:Ignoramus invents singularities (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I bet they are just stalling because they don't (Score:1, Funny)
You accidentally the verb.
When Memes Collide (Score:4, Funny)
This is not the Sarah Conner you are looking for.
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Re:Erm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dimensions (Score:5, Funny)
The parallel universes in which the LHC works without failure are already wiped out by the LHC
This is the.. unanthropological principle :) ?
Re:Black Hole Calculation (Score:2, Funny)
I'd also like to point out that the history of science is a history of being the smartest people on the planet being wrong.
So don't throw numbers that you couldn't possibly back up with fact and think that they make me feel any better.
Personally I figured God would stop the LHC from running if it were that dangerous, and so far that still gives me more comfort than your napkin back calculations.