{"id":37047,"date":"2009-11-05T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=122621"},"modified":"2009-11-05T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:30:36","slug":"breaking-large-hadron-collider-shut-down-by-precision-bird-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/37047","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Large Hadron Collider shut down by precision bird strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/05\/breaking-large-hadron-collider-shut-down-by-precision-bird-strike\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/albatross.jpg\" alt=\"albatross\" title=\"albatross\" width=\"620\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122631\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe LHC is recovering from a serious overheating problem, caused by a piece of stale bread dropped by a bird onto an apparently unprotected thermal vent. Impossible, you say?<\/p>\n<p>Not <em>impossible<\/em>. I used to bulls-eye whomp rats in my T-16 back home.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-122621\"><\/span><br \/>\nWhile it&#8217;s not about to be mistaken for a moon any time soon, the Large Hadron Collider probably is the closest thing we&#8217;ve got to the Death Star. With miles of passages, the capability to destroy a planet, and a bunch of people dressed in white scooting around inside, it&#8217;s actually a pretty good fit. So it&#8217;s no surprise that it has the same weakness. Concerned only with interference from cosmic radiation and nearby townspeople, the structure was built underground &mdash; but they didn&#8217;t count on the possibility of <del datetime=\"2009-11-05T20:51:16+00:00\">a small one-man fighter armed with the Force<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/11\/05\/lhc_bread_bomb_dump_incident\/\">a clumsy bird with a bit of baguette<\/a> making the trench run and hitting it where the least expected it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/birdbrief.jpg\" alt=\"birdbrief\" title=\"birdbrief\" width=\"600\" height=\"258\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122634\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The absurdity of this failure (though it apparently won&#8217;t affect the re-activation) makes me think that maybe the LHC really is so abhorrent to nature that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekologie.com\/2009\/10\/wait_whaaaaat_large_hardron_co.php\">the universe is contriving to snuff it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2009-11\/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc\">PopSci<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/2k0b_K1sTxvvaysBdlddA-jAzok\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/2k0b_K1sTxvvaysBdlddA-jAzok\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/2k0b_K1sTxvvaysBdlddA-jAzok\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/2k0b_K1sTxvvaysBdlddA-jAzok\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=nCW3V4LENi8:OldzH2P_g8c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=nCW3V4LENi8:OldzH2P_g8c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=nCW3V4LENi8:OldzH2P_g8c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=nCW3V4LENi8:OldzH2P_g8c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=nCW3V4LENi8:OldzH2P_g8c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LHC is recovering from a serious overheating problem, caused by a piece of stale bread dropped by a bird onto an apparently unprotected thermal vent. Impossible, you say? Not impossible. I used to bulls-eye whomp rats in my T-16 back home. 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