Week 12 and the strange stringed scientific instrument it brought along are both history. As always, thank you for your captions! They provided quite a few chuckles in the busy week gearing up for our Hackathon. We're still not sure exactly what is being built here - Our best guess is it's some sort of detector for emissions. But what sort of emissions? Was CERN looking for electric fields, magnetic fields, or something else entirely? It's interesting to note that just as the photographer's flash reflected in all 5 layers of wire, an RF signal would bounce off the rear reflector and strike the wires.

The Funnies:

• "Ooh, it's so beautiful, is this a harp?"
  "Close, it is for HAARP" - Federico Churca-Torrusio
• "Bones was right this thing will scatter your molecules across space."- scott galvin
• "Eight years of schooling and two post doctoral fellowships just so I can make quilts. I should have been a dentist." - Narfnezzle Nickerbots

The winner for this week is THX1082 with the following quote:

Congrats THX1082! You've won a CRT Android T-Shirt From The Hackaday Store!