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Message 27758 - Posted: 2 May 2016, 18:17:48 UTC

Large Hadron Collider on paws after creature chews through wiring

LHC to be out of action for a week while connections to transformer are replaced following visit from hungry fouine.

The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has been brought to its knees by a beech marten, a member of the weasel family, that chewed through wiring connected to a 66,000-volt transformer.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/29/large-hadron-collider-fouine-chews-through-transformer-wiring

SETI got birds, LHC got fouines, just what are those scientists putting in their transformer to lure the surrounding fauna like that lol?
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Message 27761 - Posted: 6 May 2016, 16:39:15 UTC - in response to Message 27758.  

just what are those scientists putting in their transformer to lure the surrounding fauna like that lol?


Seagull-delivered hot baguettes and mineral oil. Yummy!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-bang-goes-phut
http://news.fnal.gov/2016/04/main-injector-operates-following-transformer-fire/
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Message 27766 - Posted: 28 May 2016, 8:40:57 UTC

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