Bird Drops Bread, LHC Shuts Down

By Miss Cellania in Science & Tech on Nov 5, 2009 at 9:25 pm

You can’t make stuff like this up. A piece of a baguette dropped by a passing bird caused a shutdown at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.

The LHC is scheduled to be reactivated later this month. The bread incident won’t affect those plans. Link -via Boing Boing


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  1. pwscott
    Nov 5th, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Sign from above. Someone should check Biblical prophecy on this one.

  2. Johnny Cat
    Nov 5th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    That’s ridiculous, yet understandable. Nice pic.

    Oh, and The Bread Incident should be Guns n Roses’ next album title.

  3. Red-Two
    Nov 5th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Was is a small exhaust port, just above the main port? Not much more than two meters wide?

  4. Justin
    Nov 5th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

    “It’s not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than two meters. “

  5. raincoaster
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:06 am

    What happens if a bird drops a piece of toast with the Virgin Mary on it?

  6. Sean
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:08 am

    Good one, Red-Two.

    At least it was a bird and not a (womp) rat.

  7. ThEgg
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:43 am

    It’s just like shooting Womp Rats back in Beggar’s Canyon.

  8. Lasse
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 2:09 am

    As long as it doesn’t cause an resonance cascade in the anomalous materials test chamber, they should be perfectly allright.

  9. Ali S.
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 2:40 am

    I hope that they can get this working before someone sneezes and causes the thing to malfunction and break down.

  10. Foreigner1
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 3:22 am

    Ooooooooh Rats—- Autumn is coming and leaves from trees are falling more and more………………..

  11. Bryce Rasmussen
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 4:24 am

    Call it what it is-courtesy Neil Young-”it’s a piece of crap.” Very expensive piece of crap.

    That if-if, they ever get it running? Will prove that scientists are very good at finding very small, very unimportant whatsits.

  12. wow
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 5:29 am

    oh pwscott, don’t be a drama queen….

  14. pwscott
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 7:26 am

    No drama here WOW that’s pure comedy.

  16. OhYes
    Nov 6th, 2009 at 9:04 am

    The bird wanted his bread toasted.

  17. Grafiker
    Nov 8th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    I like birds! Next time i gave them more bread.

  18. Flu-Bird
    Dec 29th, 2009 at 2:32 am

    I suppose the nature freaks will use this GAIA poppycock to explain why the bird would drop the peice of bread he had and shut the place down


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