Funny.. LHC got shut down by a weasel!

[Rx7man]

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funny little news story...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Heehee! That is funny

 

[DrClaude]

funny little news story...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

Quote of the day from that article:

Of course, small mammals cause problems in all sorts of organizations. Yesterday, a group of children took National Public Radio off the air for over a minute before engineers could restore the broadcast.

 

[DennisN]

Nor are the problems exclusive to the LHC: In 2006, raccoons conducted a "coordinated" attack on a particle accelerator in Illinois.

 

[fresh_42]

Heehee! That is funny

No, it's not. The poor weasel didn't survive its adventure

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

No, it's not. The poor weasel didn't survive its adventure

I didn't read that.

 

[fresh_42]

I didn't read that.

Well, it's not a good idea to gnaw in the transformer of CERN's power supply. At least it must have been fast and physics.org wrote there's been little left of it.

 

[jim mcnamara]

A weasel damaged a 66Kv power line at the LHC, and CERN had to shut down the LHC.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/29/weasel-causes-shutdown-at-cern.html

So, how do you weasel-proof something that huge?

 

[fresh_42]

Weasel 0 : CERN power supply 1

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-weasel-large-hadron-collider.html

 

[micromass]

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

So, how do you weasel-proof something that huge?

Seal the gaps?

 

[fresh_42]

Seal the gaps?

There are no seals in the lake of Geneva!