Large Hadron Collider’s Secret Emergency Stop Button

By Alex in Pictures, Science & Tech on Sep 11, 2008 at 12:16 am

With all the hullabaloo over how the Large Hadron Collider will spawn a black hole that will swallow Earth, do you think that scientists will leave it up to chance? Noooo, of course not. They have a secret emergency abort button.

Thanks to Skepchick blog, we now have secret photos from inside the CERN research center: LinkThanks Rebecca Watson!

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  1. Dylan Bennett
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 12:43 am

    And if you want to know whether you’re safe or not, you can keep an eye on this site:

    http://HasTheLargeHadronColliderDestroyedTheWorldYet.com

    And there’s even an RSS feed so you can be notified right away.

  2. Kim
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    OMG, History Eraser Button.

  3. Byrd
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    Kim,

    Don’t touch it, you FOOL!

  4. Stephen
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Got a good laugh at the HasThe…site. Better than ‘Is Twitter Down’. :)

  5. Scotchdrnkr
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Has anyone else seen the Irony of building something so LARGE to study something so SMALL?

  6. Kim
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Byrd,

    But it’s so SHINY and CANDY-LIKE

  7. EEM
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Ah all i know is I need to find a good crow bar…..

  8. Sammy
    Sep 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Shouldnt there be several buttons all around the building?
    I mean, If the world is being swallowed whole, Id rather the guy sent to push the button isnt stuck in an elevator


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