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Caption CERN Contest Week 21

A contest log for Caption CERN Contest

Caption CERN, win a prize!

adam-fabioAdam Fabio 06/25/2015 at 05:1586 Comments

Week 21: 6/24/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/2/2015

These two CERN scientists are looking through some kind of optical apparatus. There is a plano-convex lens mounted on an adjustable arm. The scientists appear to be looking through a window while adjusting some controls.

Is this some kind of physics experiment? Could it be research into psychomotor acuity? Maybe the dark haired scientist is just getting her yearly CERN eye exam? You tell us!

This week's prize is a Teensy 3.1 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

alj5432 wrote 06/25/2015 at 20:01 point

Despite all the leading advances in selfie equipment,

Betty felt she could never master the perfect duckface pose.

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Michele Perla wrote 06/25/2015 at 19:20 point

Finally we got a magnifying lens for this hyperdense pixels monitor, I could barely see where Super Mario was moving before!

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MECHANICUS wrote 06/25/2015 at 19:10 point

Agatha and Christie the CERN cooks check the state of their meat pie through the thick glass of the induction oven.

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Eric van den Hurck wrote 06/25/2015 at 19:02 point

This photo was the test, because nobody saw the picture of Big Bird in the background. Thank me later. ;)

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Dave wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:56 point

A popular game at the quarterly CERN sleepover was staring into the darkened mirror and repeating "Bloody Marie Curie" until her ghost appeared.

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K.C. Lee wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:46 point

Burning stuff with the magnifying glass never gets old - you just get better equipments.  Having a grant and high power accelerator at your disposable is just one perks a career at CERN has to offer.  Talk to your college Career Counselor now!

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flymypg wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:36 point

Um, Edith?  The Theremin works better if you don't touch it.

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dave wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:22 point

Tthe protype ms. pacman screen and joystick were quickly refined to the size we are now familiar with.

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John Scancella wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:16 point

One more crystal and my ultimate lightsaber will be complete!

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K.C. Lee wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:14 point

Mary is practicing her sailor moon transformation for the comic con...  "Moon Prism Power, Make Up."

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David Boucher wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:05 point

During their off-time CERN programmers invented the very first point & click adventure.  It was a true pixel hunt.

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The Green Gentleman wrote 06/25/2015 at 18:04 point

"Nah, the saucers can't shoot at you, but you gotta watch out for the guided missiles."  

"Ah, I see," said Marietta, but she couldn't imagine why anyone would pay a quarter to blow up little green tanks that most kindergartners would be ashamed of drawing.  She transferred out of the CERN VR unit shortly thereafter.

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jonsmirl wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:52 point

"You can use the wand to turn them all into frogs!"

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The Green Gentleman wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:51 point

Although it sounded like a lot, 20 dots per inch ended up harder to read than anyone had anticipated.

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kfitch42 wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:49 point

Sally is performing final alignment checks on the SMLS (Shark Mounted Laser System).

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Glytch wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:44 point

"As you can see, text is very difficult to read on our new 4k monitors, so we package a special screen magnification device with each one!"

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LCD2PCB wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:27 point

While developing CERN's newest software they failed to invent a way to invert the image produced from their monitor.

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dougal wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:14 point

"No, no. It's not 'Wingardium Levio-SAH', it's 'Wingardium Levi-OH-sa'!"

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Darian Lewis wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:12 point

"I really don't think the fake diamond we created is going to fool anyone...I wouldn't even wear it."

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Hunter Thornsberry wrote 06/25/2015 at 17:08 point

Here we see a CERN employee playing PacMan on CERN's 60 inch monitor.

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