Large Hadron Collider shut down by weasel. RIP weasel. - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36173247[/url] [quote]The Large Hardon Collider particle accelerator at Cern is offline after a short circuit - caused by a weasel. The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a high-voltage transformer at the site near Geneva in Switzerland. The LHC was running when a "severe electrical perturbation" occurred in the early hours of Friday morning. A spokesman for Cern said that the weasel did not get into the tunnels, just the electrical facilities. Arnaud Marsollier told the BBC that it would take a few days to repair the damage caused by the weasel's visit.[/quote]

It's amazing how far technology has come yet pests still remain a threat to electronics and machinery

I hope they can repair the damage soon; I am very interested in the Hadron Collider. I do feel bad for the weasel, though. :( [QUOTE=Native Hunter;50227199]It's amazing how far technology has come yet pests still remain a threat to electronics and machinery[/QUOTE] Isn't that how the word "bug" originally came into use in computer science?

Damn, that weasel must've been vaporized.

[QUOTE=Reflex F.N.;50227204] Isn't that how the word "bug" originally came into use in computer science?[/QUOTE] Yep, a moth in a vacuum tube.

[QUOTE=Cow Muffins;50227242]Yep, a moth in a vacuum tube.[/QUOTE] Stuck in a relay. Not a tube. :eng101: [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/H96566k.jpg[/img]

And so this is how the resonance cascade begins

It's okay because he's infused with Speed Force now.

[QUOTE=pentium;50227254]Stuck in a relay. Not a tube.[/QUOTE] This is one of those stories that has been passed around for awhile but isn't the actual source of the word. [URL]http://www.computerworld.com/article/2515435/app-development/moth-in-the-machine--debugging-the-origins-of--bug-.html[/URL] The phrasing of "first [I]actual [/I]case of bug" kinda gives that away. :eng101:

Meanwhile, in CERN: [I]Intercom 1: "Oh dear!" Intercom 2: "Gordon, get away from the-" Intercom 1: "Shutting down-no, attempted shutdown. It's not-it's not, it's not shutting down!"[/I] Cue the resonance cascade.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;50227318]And so this is how the resonance cascade begins[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Petrussen;50227392]Meanwhile, in CERN: [I]Intercom 1: "Oh dear!" Intercom 2: "Gordon, get away from the-" Intercom 1: "Shutting down-no, attempted shutdown. It's not-it's not, it's not shutting down!"[/I] Cue the resonance cascade.[/QUOTE] Somehow I knew someone would manage to [B]weasel[/B] in a few Half-Life references here.

[QUOTE=DeEz;50227214]Damn, that weasel must've been vaporized.[/QUOTE] It now exists over several plains of existence.

I was speaking to a professor at Nottingham about this and apparently CERN are actually a nightmare for the local grid because while the lhc is active they use up about as much power as the rest of the canton of Geneva, and also some of the other experiments draw a hell of a lot of power but for a few milliseconds at a time, all of which is so horrible for the grid to deal with that they have to have a load of systems in place in CERN to smooth out the consumption.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;50227318]And so this is how the resonance cascade begins[/QUOTE] "We've been supplied with WEASELS! Cute as fuck lil buggers! Now, push the cart full of weasels into the beam Gordon."

[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;50227545]Somehow I knew someone would manage to [B]weasel[/B] in a few Half-Life references here.[/QUOTE] You weaselly motherfucker...

Pop goes the weasel... sorry

I was hoping he would've gotten caught in the particle beam and we would've discovered the island of stability

Can we take a moment to appreciate the gloriously funny wording that the BBC are using: [QUOTE] [B]The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a high-voltage transformer[/B] at the site near Geneva in Switzerland. Arnaud Marsollier told the BBC that it would take a few days to repair the damage [B]caused by the weasel's visit[/B].[/QUOTE]

There goes hopes for an I am Weasel reboot.

My people take their first step towards defending my dimension from the human race

Yet no giant atomic powered super weasel reported at the scene

a racoon got into a nearby generator at my work and it literally disintegrated

[QUOTE=ridinmybike;50228141]a racoon got into a nearby generator at my work and it literally disintegrated[/QUOTE] Must have been one powerful racoon to disintegrate an entire generator.

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;50227199]It's amazing how far technology has come yet pests still remain a threat to electronics and machinery[/QUOTE] Squirrels are currently a bigger threat to the power grid than hackers [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/12/are-squirrels-a-bigger-threat-to-the-power-grid-than-hackers/[/url] Also The Cables that run the internet across the entire Atlantic ocean are built to be Shark proof.

Weasel will now reach its ultimate form, Perfect Weasel

NPR described it as a "small, charcoal-briquette creature"

[QUOTE=defy;50228480]Squirrels are currently a bigger threat to the power grid than hackers [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/12/are-squirrels-a-bigger-threat-to-the-power-grid-than-hackers/[/URL] Also The Cables that run the internet across the entire Atlantic ocean are built to be Shark proof.[/QUOTE] One time a group of squirrels built a nest inside a power box and or transformer and chewed up some wires, knocking out power for a few hours while wiping out the entire nest and frying a whole bunch of other squirrels leaving their bodies littered all over the area. Electricity is no fucking joke.

[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;50227654]I was speaking to a professor at Nottingham about this and apparently CERN are actually a nightmare for the local grid because while the lhc is active they use up about as much power as the rest of the canton of Geneva, and also some of the other experiments draw a hell of a lot of power but for a few milliseconds at a time, all of which is so horrible for the grid to deal with that they have to have a load of systems in place in CERN to smooth out the consumption.[/QUOTE] that's not surprising considering the scale of the work they do! CERN basically created the internet to support the backbone of their data processing (and that network has evolved and still exists today) It's a site to behold, especially getting to look through the glass into ATLAS's control room and seeing the detector video feeds up onscreen. I actually got the chance to go there before they officially announced the higgs, though they basically were like "we know we found it but we've got to be absolutely certain". They even ran the tour group through preliminary slides showing the data for it when it was at lower sigma.

I know they'll be to ferret out all the problems in no time, but then I've always been a stoat defender of the LHC

That Ned's Declassified spin-off starring the former school janitor and his arch-nemesis weasel is off to a shocking finish that never started.