Caption CERN Contest Week 15

Week 15: 5/13/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/20/2015

Accidents happen! When you're working on the bleeding edge of science and technology, things don't always go as planned. In this image, we're looking at what appears to be the result of some sort of failure. We're not sure what the piece of equipment was, but "was" is the proper term - as it's now charred to a crisp.

The two scientists investigating the damage don't seem to be worried about the radiation warning posted on the end of the machine's aperture. Hopefully they know what they're doing!

Last week's prize was a Bus Pirate. This week we're giving away another Dangerous Prototypes design, a Logic Pirate from The Hackaday Store.

Add your humorous caption as a comment to this project log. Make sure you're commenting on this contest log, not on the contest itself.

As always, if you actually have information about the image or the people in it, let CERN know on the original image discussion page.

Good Luck!

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xemexe wrote 05/15/2015 at 04:00

Bob! we're gonna get soooo busted if they find out we were making s'mores in this thing ….

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arf.at.sjv wrote 05/15/2015 at 03:48

See, this is why we do the experiments BEFORE we 'Turn the science up to 11!'

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Peter Walsh wrote 05/15/2015 at 03:37

Now... turn your head and cough.

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Valkaiser wrote 05/15/2015 at 03:36

Look! The gooey caramel center!

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DainBramage wrote 05/15/2015 at 03:35

Here we see a technician hard at work trying to remove Dr. Jones from the irradiated refrigerator.

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zachb1121 wrote 05/15/2015 at 03:19

"The boss things it's some charred and irradiated piece of waste... it's really a mini fridge for the office."

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MechaTweak wrote 05/15/2015 at 02:16

"I didn't realize Maine bordered on Virginia"

"Last year we accidentally created a black hole, it's all very technical, you wouldn't understand."

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Alex Rich wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:53

CERN, where passing the annual physical means turning your head and only coughing up a little blood.

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Keith Olson wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:36

Tom's attempts to get ARMA 3 to run at 90fps on max settings were clearly more than his cooling system could handle.

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ras B wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:36

"Hmmm, i can see what is causing the problem. That little misplaced atom there- Can you see it?"

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Nathaniel D wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:33

"With an excess of refined uranium due to the government's constant misunderstanding that nuclear physics isn't just uranium, the researchers at Cern designed a nuclear dishwasher, both to clean parts for the collider and to help their wives get the tough stains off. Pictured is one of the many failures resulting in destroyed china and vaporized silverware, of course resulting in many researchers sleeping at work for a few months. "

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Keith Olson wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:31

Not all of Willie Wonka's ideas panned out. The FDA would never have approved his Real Atomic Jawbreaker anyway.

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Keith Olson wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:29

Remind me again how much we saved going with the lowest bidder for this.

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Keith Olson wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:28

By Gordon refusing to insert the sample into the Anti-Mass Spectrometer as long as there was an anomaly (per union safety rules), the Black Mesa facility ultimately avoided dealing with a possible resonance cascade.

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Keith Olson wrote 05/15/2015 at 01:14

Huh. According to this Geiger counter, I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning as bald as you, Joe.

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uxmanz wrote 05/15/2015 at 00:53

Hey Sal, if you take a picture of me looking concerned in front of this dead radiation emitting thingy; may be people back home will not know that I am a barista at government's pay roll.

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Joshua wrote 05/15/2015 at 00:47

'Ahh yeah, I thought so. See here? Some idiot has jammed a USB drive into the RJ45 socket.'

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Firstly Lastly wrote 05/15/2015 at 00:12

Larry, I'm going to let you explain to Elon why Powerwall Model X-1 is a no-go

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jcharlestc wrote 05/15/2015 at 00:04

Maybe we can still win one of hackaday's monthly prizes, Franz.

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HTCPCP 418 wrote 05/15/2015 at 00:04

"Well... Our additions to the circuit are removed and we stuck a radiation sign over the warranty sticker. Let's just fill out the RMA form and act like we don't know why it broke."

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