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Caption CERN Contest Week 20

A contest log for Caption CERN Contest

Caption CERN, win a prize!

adam-fabioAdam Fabio 06/18/2015 at 03:4454 Comments

Week 20: 6/17/2015 - 9pm PDT 6/24/2015

Anyone who's worked on a major project, be it professional, personal, or for a contest like The Hackaday Prize, knows about marathon sessions. Those times when you put in your all and just push the project ahead until you drop. This scientist has definitely given his all and then some! He's catching a few winks right under the blackboard where he presumably has been working. This image has no caption, though it's attached to an album entitled Linac control room. None of the pictures seem to show much of a control room though. It seems that back in 1966, CERN's photographer was a bit more interested in sleeping scientists than the science itself!

So what do you think is happening in this image? Can you make anything interesting out from the diagrams on the blackboard? Give it a shot!

This week's prize is a Stickvice 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!

Discussions

KO'B wrote 06/19/2015 at 21:27 point

A well deserved nap after another year's successful cable harvest.

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rrwells97 wrote 06/19/2015 at 20:03 point

In-depth research into how horses sleep standing up, Dr Poliakov (left, asleep standing) and his control specimen.

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Eric wrote 06/19/2015 at 19:49 point

Having engineered the perfect nap, all that was left was to test it.

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surubarescu wrote 06/19/2015 at 19:31 point

Anticipating a long test run, Dan installed a bed in each office, but found out that all extra stuff that had to be moved gathered into his office and now there's no room for his bed. 

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surubarescu wrote 06/19/2015 at 19:28 point

Tracing each step of the collider emergency shutdown procedure (that never seems to work), Dan found out that he also entered into an infinite loop and shutdown for being low on resources.

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MechaTweak wrote 06/19/2015 at 18:38 point

During the great blackboard shortage of '66, scientists went to great lengths to protect their unfinished work from premature erasure.  

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rick fleischer wrote 06/19/2015 at 18:34 point

The incantations allowed Vlad to forgo his coffin and sleep through the day in his modern torture chamber.

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alj5432 wrote 06/19/2015 at 18:30 point

It wasn't long after plugging into the CERN Matrix

when Carl wished he had taken the Blue Pill instead.

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haxtormoogle wrote 06/19/2015 at 18:22 point

It was at this moment that they proved mathematically and scientifically that you could not wake Jim with a atomic fart.

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alj5432 wrote 06/19/2015 at 18:10 point

When Dr. Carl said working at CERN was his dream job 

few realized how serious he was.

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james wrote 06/19/2015 at 17:41 point

Do CERN Scientists Dream of Subatomic Sheep?

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Rob wrote 06/19/2015 at 16:55 point

A weekend at CERNies

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RandyKC wrote 06/19/2015 at 16:47 point

Since sleeping on the problem didn't work he decided to try a new approach, sleeping under the problem.

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GuyisIT wrote 06/19/2015 at 16:29 point

The only way to wake sleeping beauty is with the kiss of the Higgs Boson.

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Michele Perla wrote 06/19/2015 at 15:41 point

"One cable, two cables, three cables, four cables, five cables... zzzzzzz"

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jkristof94 wrote 06/19/2015 at 15:20 point

After days of hesitation, John decided it's time to get to the bottom of this problem...quite literally!

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The Green Gentleman wrote 06/19/2015 at 15:00 point

"Nice pants," Edward breathed as Klaus reached for a shielded cable.  This was just one of the many reasons Klaus dreaded trips to the supply room.

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dandurrghi wrote 06/19/2015 at 14:10 point

After all the research I still don't know if out of body experiences are real or if my armpit smell was making me hallucinate.

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jakewisher125 wrote 06/19/2015 at 14:06 point

"Professor Briggs is the kind of man who will never take a challenge lying down... that is, until his work in artificial gravity forces him to"

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Will F. wrote 06/19/2015 at 14:06 point

A peaceful moment before the CERN slumber party descends into chaos theory.

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