Caption CERN Contest Week 22

Week 22: 7/1/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/8/2015

Holy cable gore, Batman! This image may make a network engineer or IT person weep, but it was business as usual back in the early days of CERN. 14 racks of equipment, with coaxial cables running everywhere. Let's hope all those patches are connected to the correct ports! What were these two CERN scientists working on? It's up to you to tell us, as CERN has lost the records!

While you're working on your captions, check out the old oscilloscope the standing scientist is using. Scope carts used to be necessary. Today all but the most powerful oscilloscopes weigh in at under 10 pounds.

This week's prize is a Stickvise 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 07/04/2015 at 14:37

Long before the "50 Shades of Grey", there was the story of 50 shades of grey wires. Out comes the spark of an idea that revolution how we see. The world is now a better place thanks to these bright lads at CERN that brought us colours. If not for them, we'll still be living in monochrome.

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Kieran Paulger wrote 07/04/2015 at 14:32

"Getting to blinky" required a whole lot more work then the engineers realized.

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Keith Olson wrote 07/04/2015 at 14:27

Their partnership was simple, though their plan was grandiose: Larry cooked their department's books while Steve assembled and tested the hardware; they *would* build the world's largest analog synth or die trying!

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DanH wrote 07/04/2015 at 14:24

"Ok, try this: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, then Start…”

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jens.andree wrote 07/04/2015 at 14:21

LAN nights at CERN require a wee bit more planning than normal...

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phriot wrote 07/03/2015 at 20:11

Little known fact: CERN is actually the soundstage and set for every 1950s movie computer scene.

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littlehalfwings wrote 07/03/2015 at 20:08

Remember Johnson, No postulated sectors!

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Steel_9 wrote 07/03/2015 at 15:23

Dr Bishop had a slight tendency to go overboard when "helping" with his sons project for the science fair.

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Lou wrote 07/03/2015 at 15:23

Last night I had a dream that some day, all of this will fit in the palm of my hand.

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Lou wrote 07/03/2015 at 15:18

Just park it over there with the other obsolete equipment, I will add it to our "To be scrapped" inventory.

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Cody wrote 07/03/2015 at 12:58

Hazing the new guy at CERN: one of these connections has the wrong impedance. You have fifteen minutes.

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Cody wrote 07/03/2015 at 12:58

Hazing the new guy at CERN: one of these connections has the wrong impedance. You have fifteen minutes.

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Jarrett wrote 07/03/2015 at 05:58

Ah shoot, the rats are nesting in here again

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Cody wrote 07/03/2015 at 04:55

The first attempt at a LAN party. Shortly thereafter a workgroup started planning the IP protocol. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Cody wrote 07/03/2015 at 04:52

The engineers worried that the prototype astromech system wouldn't fit inside the new enclosure.

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rrwells97 wrote 07/03/2015 at 00:33

FYI, the center o'scope appears to be a Tektronix 545/A, circa 1957-1961 (although there was a clone, the Lavoie Oscilloscope LA-265A). Weight about 69.5 lbs including the dual-trace preamp. Manuals, here for the interested...

http://www.thevalvepage.com/resources/manuals/manuals.php

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rrwells97 wrote 07/02/2015 at 22:13

Pierre, I hear Walter's working on something called a "transistor". Do you think something like that will ever be useful?

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rrwells97 wrote 07/02/2015 at 22:08

Hey Edoardo, with these white coats, do you think that new girl in accounting will believe I'm a gynecologist?

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rrwells97 wrote 07/02/2015 at 22:06

I hope you have the popcorn, I've almost finished building the new microwave oven.

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rrwells97 wrote 07/02/2015 at 22:02

With the addition of this, we'll be able to receive free HBO. Now, remind me again what HBO is.

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