Large Hadron collider

[citizen14]

When in the hell is this thing going to be turned on?

[Inferno96]

Right after Duke Nukem Forever is released


No, seriously.

[OneArrow]

I can't even count how many times I've misread that name...

[alienatic]

edit: nevermind

[novalyphe]

As far as I'm aware it should be some time later this year, maybe around september october.

There was a fault after initial startup and it takes months to get the electromagnets back down to the correct temperature after it's fixed.

[AtlasDark]

What I'm waiting for is seeing what they do with it if it fails. What are they going to do afterwards with all of that equipment? Make the world's largest random object collision system?

[YayPython]

Haha, maybe they'll shoot it into the ocean.

[Dan R]

Haha, maybe they'll shoot it into the ocean.

Shoot half of Geneva into an ocean, hmm, no reason why not
And i heard from somewhere that there were plans to use it to grow mushrooms, not sure about that though.

[AtlasDark]

LOL, the world's largest and most expensive mushroom-cultivation unit.

[godofcereal]

What I'm waiting for is seeing what they do with it if it fails. What are they going to do afterwards with all of that equipment? Make the world's largest random object collision system?

What do you mean by fail? Breakdown? Explosion? You do know that this is being used by scientists and engineers who know what they are doing? And that the chances of it breaking/exploding/black hole or whatever is really really slim.