Caption CERN Contest Week 23

Week 23: 7/8/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/15/2015

Something a bit different this week. CERN is probably best known for the various particle accelerators they've had over the years. One of the first units was synchrocyclotron SC-1, which operated from 1957 to 1974. According to the album page on CERN's servers, SC-1's last day of operation was celebrated with a funeral procession. Scientists, and staff walked the grounds with flowers, top hats, and even a shrouded coffin. We can all related to decommissioning a well worn piece of equipment. Be it a computer, a machine tool, or even a synchrocyclotron. There are always the mixed feelings of thanks that it did a good job, and the relief that it will no longer need to be maintained.

Even though we have a pretty good idea of what's going on in this image, we're going to caption it anyway! Give us your best captions of what you think is really going on here!

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Reg wrote 07/09/2015 at 22:23

Woderwick and Wodger had had enough of the pomp, ceremony and fanfare every single morning and today split from The People's Front of CERN to form the Popular People's Front of CERN.

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Jack Laidlaw wrote 07/09/2015 at 22:05

In it's early days Cern tried using search parties to find the elusive Higgs Boson.

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Mike [Cazzwell] Cassell wrote 07/09/2015 at 21:24

The engineers at CERN are always very respectable to those who donate their bodies to science; by putting on their best tin foil hats followed by a Jazz procession.

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Josh Kopel wrote 07/09/2015 at 21:14

After many years of ignoring the pitiful meows, it was finally determined that Schrödinger's cat was, in fact, dead.

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David Boucher wrote 07/09/2015 at 21:08

No! You can't all be on the cover of "CERN Does Abbey Road!"

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TiBounise wrote 07/09/2015 at 21:04

Magic smoke was a serious thing at CERN, especially when they buried the engineer who failed at his task with his now defunct project.

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Finder wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:56

Here we can see a mysterious ritiual for the glory of the particles.

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RoGeorge wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:54

- John!
- Yes boss.
- Do you think this stick makes me look ridiculous?
- Ph...(giggle)...No sir! (snort)
- Anyway, remind me to ban all antimatter office pranks!

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ajlitt wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:43

As a result of this tragedy, we'll be debunking the science behind superhero origin stories at next year's intern orientation.

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Mike wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:37

Little did they know this was the start of the Zombie Apocalypse

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ajlitt wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:56

Untrue. It was the LHC: http://www.decayfilm.com/

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Karl-Wilhelm Wacker wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:29

The Friday afternoon cleaning of the staff refrigerator was done with pop and ceremony, except when someone left their Limburger sandwich in an unapproved briefcase, in which case the breifcase was also disposed of.

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jakewisher125 wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:29

"At the sight of this parade, it had became increasingly clear that the experiments in mercury poisoning (administered via adding it to the test participants coffee without their knowledge) were a resounding success!"

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Jarrett wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:18

In the late 70s, radiation safety measures were found to be unnecessary - That's what interns are for.

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ca5m1th wrote 07/09/2015 at 20:10

The delegation from Hogwarts had a difficult time keeping themselves from fits of giggles during their visit to CERN.

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scott galvin wrote 07/09/2015 at 19:19

Services were held today for SC-1. SC1’s life ended earlier
this week after a devastating head on collision.

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THX1082 wrote 07/09/2015 at 19:14

Seeing as no one at CERN could dance, their contribution to the Harlem Shake craze was more of a Harlem Shuffle.

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scott galvin wrote 07/09/2015 at 19:10

Cern Scientists carry the all-spark signifying the end of the decepti-lectrons and the synchrocyclotron
wars

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DainBramage wrote 07/09/2015 at 17:19

CERN's annual Halloween parade was a huge disappointment that year, which was probably due to the fact that they held it in June.

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