Caption CERN Contest Week 14

Week 14: 5/6/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/13/2015

We've seen a lot of strange equipment here at Hackaday, but this one left us at a loss for words - at least for a few minutes. What the heck is this thing? Pressure vessel? RF chamber? Looking at this image and another one depicting a strange device in CERN's labs, we haven't the foggiest idea. We do know it's large, and these two CERN scientists are working hard to get it ready for... something. It also has fins. Fins make everything cooler. Beyond that - we're leaving this one in the capable hands of our caption team here on Hackaday.io.

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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.

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Discussions

Joe Bass wrote 05/09/2015 at 03:03

Yeah, Phil, I know it's descriptive and all, but I just don't think the name "Quantum Vegamatic" is going to help us much with funding!

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Robert Guyser wrote 05/09/2015 at 02:38

Having captured sputnik and replaced it with a double, the team began to extract the truth, like juice from an orange.

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cyplesma wrote 05/09/2015 at 01:33

Only Dave was still interested in the universe in a can. Everyone else's LSD had worn off.

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cyplesma wrote 05/09/2015 at 01:31

The weapon control system for the Dune spaceships... before all the artsy fartsy gold trim.

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Neil Cherry wrote 05/09/2015 at 01:16

Well what do ya know?!? Powered by Arduino ...

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Neil Cherry wrote 05/09/2015 at 01:04

"Cool! My vintage atomic power supply arrived for my Hero robot. "

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James Driver wrote 05/09/2015 at 00:28

Bob, let me make sure I understand what you are saying. 1) Godzilla was a side effect of one of CERN's experiments gone wrong. 2) Godzilla is female. 3) It's in heat. 4) This contraption will make it sterile. and 5) We have to put this WHERE?

Jack, I keep trying to tell you. Think of it like a giant supposityry, but going into a different hole.

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Robert Guyser wrote 05/09/2015 at 02:43

Eww

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sbi.gaijin wrote 05/08/2015 at 23:52

Are you quite sure you put the cat in here, Mr Polanski?

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bennettmarks439 wrote 05/08/2015 at 21:23

B6......aw, you sunk my battleship :( !!

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Brian Tkatch wrote 05/08/2015 at 20:35

Putting the final tweaks on Tesla's original record player.

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whorkaday wrote 05/08/2015 at 20:28

Just prior to bringing in the large glass of milk, CERN scientists make final adjustments to the mixing paddles of the Nestle Quickulator.

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Chris wrote 05/08/2015 at 20:05

"Well Ted, you wanted to see where baby Autobots came from."

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johnowhitaker wrote 05/08/2015 at 20:01

Fritz turns away as his two co-workers get close enough to his Revenginator(TM) for it to activate, severely electrocuting them and teaching them to never, EVER shove the scope probes straight into the breadboard...

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magiclant3rn wrote 05/08/2015 at 19:39

And once we have installed the giant robot's heart, I will, dare I say it, rule the world!

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Paul Klemstine wrote 05/08/2015 at 19:30

Only minutes before the CERN toga party, Bill and Ted are desperately trying to repair the office drink mixer.

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matthewbaird2829 wrote 05/08/2015 at 19:24

Time travel CERNtainly has it's advantages; having to prentend (countless times) that this is my first time building this machine is most definitely not one of them

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Korey wrote 05/08/2015 at 19:13

A-ha! We finally found the secret pressure cooker containing Colonel Sanders' secret recipe of herbs and spices!!!!!

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jakewisher125 wrote 05/08/2015 at 18:55

after being inspired by a certain long running British sci-fi television series, the CERN tardis is currently under development

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KMP.digtal wrote 05/08/2015 at 18:40

Hey Joe Can you see the bacon, or a few more turns on the trans-dimentional-baconator creator.

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CltFlyboy wrote 05/08/2015 at 18:22

"Aha! So *that's* the problem. But how did a bug - a cockroach of all things - get inside of the Heisenberg generator?" ...If only Einstein had known that he'd created the term what would become standard vernacular for undetected problems, well before Grace Hopper made it famous...

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