Caption CERN Contest Week 18

Week 18: 6/3/2015 - 9pm PDT 6/10/2015

CERN is no stranger to innovative display systems. It should be no surprise, considering CERN staff are trying to work with massive amounts of data collected by thousands of scientists. Here we see one of those systems, a projection table of some sort.

Today video projectors are relatively cheap and easy to make, thanks to advances in LCD and MEMS technology. Back when this image was shot in 1979 though, video projectors were expensive and rare commodities. What was this scientist doing?

You tell us!

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Matt wrote 06/05/2015 at 03:35

Are you SERIOUS?! Coffee stains on my air hockey table? Again?!

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joe_pumpernickle wrote 06/05/2015 at 02:54

CERN trying to find a new market for their large format display after the Jedi Council opted to go with a competitors 3-D hologram model.

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ganzuul wrote 06/05/2015 at 01:52

Many Photons died to bring us this information.

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Reynarduino wrote 06/05/2015 at 01:51

Engineers: spending millions of dollars to build a device to play Asteroids on... to avoid paying 25 cents to play it at the arcade.

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Jack Laidlaw wrote 06/05/2015 at 01:10

The invention of the Forensic UV light was not a happy affair when Julie realised what her desk was used for when she was not there.

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jlbrian7 wrote 06/05/2015 at 00:51

Retrotechtacular: http://cds.cern.ch/record/43141

They talk about the "scanning girl" around 14:40, but the whole video is fascinating.

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jlbrian7 wrote 06/05/2015 at 00:25

http://history.fnal.gov/neutrino.html#NAL

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EncoreTech wrote 06/05/2015 at 00:22

"the death ray is ready Mr. Goldfinger, you can bring in Mr. Bond now."

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Reg wrote 06/04/2015 at 23:49

Spacewar is finally operating smoothly, when laser projected, using the latest algorithms.

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Rob wrote 06/04/2015 at 23:10

The final stages of crop circle design.

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ruhansa079 wrote 06/04/2015 at 22:03

Hmm, Mommy is watching you boy... Who's that? A girlfriend?

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MECHANICUS wrote 06/04/2015 at 21:36

Tabatha, the dungeon master, plots tonight's dungeon and dragons game inside the exploded atom.

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Jarrett wrote 06/04/2015 at 21:27

Friday night is Missile Command night in the lab. It's a serious event.

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Eric van den Hurck wrote 06/04/2015 at 21:02

Scientists told Suzie the videoprojection table was multitouch enabled. She wanted to see for herself, shame it was April 1st 1979...

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Andre Esteves wrote 06/04/2015 at 20:50

- Carla lived a sad boring life charting bubble chamber photographs. Electrons in their magnetic spiral trajectories made her feel depressed. She lived for the moment a neutral current would get on.

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Inderpreet Singh wrote 06/04/2015 at 20:32

The CERN model of the first air hockey table was rejected due to the lack of an instruction manual and the fact that the loosing player is incinerated by the laser which is considered rude.

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cdilla wrote 06/04/2015 at 20:31

Bridget's mad air-hocky skills were a side effect of her highenergy proton bothering day job.

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Brian Neeley wrote 06/04/2015 at 20:14

The Death Star will be in range in fifteen minutes.

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THX1082 wrote 06/04/2015 at 15:58

Although BMs 1-5 ended in destruction and mass casualties, CERN was hopeful for the success of BM 6 with the addition of a laser guidance system.

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K.C. Lee wrote 06/04/2015 at 14:52

Late night at work and you are sick of ordering out? No problem, just our multi-purpose projector to make a home cook meat right on your desk!
- prewarm the surface
- mix and stretch the dough
- place the toppings to the template
- Cranked up the projector and a few minutes later you are going to get the most perfect pizza.

Call now to order this...

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