Caption CERN Contest Week 17

Week 17: 5/27/2015 - 9pm PDT 6/3/2015

Coils, gleaming metal, giant domes, now this is a proper mad scientist image! The CERN scientists in this image seem to be working on a large metal device of some sort. It definitely looks like an electrode which would be at home either at CERN or the well equipped home lab of one Dr. Frankenstein's. We don't have a caption, but we do have a rough date of August, 1961. What is happening in this image? Are these scientists setting up an experiment, or plotting world domination?

You tell us!

This week we're giving away 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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K.C. Lee wrote 05/30/2015 at 04:33

This is what happens when the marketing team trying to invent the world's first basketball hoop. We got that industrial stainless steel look that the hipsters want. We just need to do something about that hoop. It is a pain to have to climb a ladder every time we score.

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mforbes0669 wrote 05/29/2015 at 23:25

"And here is our evidence that brushed aluminum is too slick for hamsters to grip properly."

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mike wrote 05/29/2015 at 22:57

I tell you Mrs. Swenson, this new kitchen will be the envy of the neighborhood!

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UncleKnucklehead wrote 05/29/2015 at 22:17

"We're gonna get a rope ladder so we can just pull it up after us... Hey look! Here's where I stash my Playboys!"

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macsimski wrote 05/29/2015 at 21:01

"And remember, only ONE spoon of coffee, otherwise the machine will crash"

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dandurrghi wrote 05/29/2015 at 20:38

Shhh, Go to sleep. Daddy's here

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The Feature Creep wrote 05/29/2015 at 22:16

Sir, I salute you.

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/30/2015 at 23:04

Pure meme-y goodness.

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Joshua Young wrote 05/29/2015 at 20:36

This was the last living image taken of the creators shot shortly before they powered up their robot

Eye of Sauron.

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DainBramage wrote 05/29/2015 at 20:14

CERN's attempt at getting into the Guiness Book of Records for making the world's largest door knob.

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carbonfiber wrote 05/29/2015 at 19:43

Archeology Professor Ammit Duat from the University of Cairo, assisting CERN engineer Jack Orsiris in changing the locks on the door to the Egyptian underworld

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/29/2015 at 19:15

"Dude. Dude. Dude. What if ... instead of shooting out neutrons ... this shot out shamrock shakes!" It was weeks before anyone found Rylan's body, and curiously, no one seemed terribly interested in how he'd managed to get stuck that far inside the ISR.

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jkristof94 wrote 05/29/2015 at 19:01

Dammit Tom! See what happens when you accidentally write inches instead of millimeters?

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K.C. Lee wrote 05/29/2015 at 18:15

The first version of the biometric door lock didn't quite have the ergonomic and minimization right. Until it get fixed, you have to call maintenance and they dispatch a union guy to come and hold the step ladder for you.

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reidpinkham wrote 05/29/2015 at 17:53

I hope the bloody tea is done. Its been in here all morning.

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bennettmarks439 wrote 05/29/2015 at 17:52

"First they shrink us, then they put us in the dishwasher, guys, we gotta get out of here before they decide to turn it on!"

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Joshua Young wrote 05/29/2015 at 16:24

No Frank, I don't know what the heck it's for, but I swear every time I leave my sandwiches up here they are piping hot by lunch time. You ought to see the frozen yogurt I got going in the superconductor room.

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THX1082 wrote 05/29/2015 at 15:23

CERN (Constructing Extremely Radioactive Nonsense)

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stefan wrote 05/29/2015 at 15:17

turn it around, the other sock must still be inside!

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colebeit wrote 05/29/2015 at 14:39

The Hell is this??

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Wyatt wrote 05/29/2015 at 14:38

"And here we have the scientists hard at work making the words largest cotton candy machine"

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Robert Ross wrote 05/29/2015 at 14:32

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" the scientist exclaimed into the newly installed pa system.

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