Caption CERN Contest Week 22

Week 22: 7/1/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/8/2015

Holy cable gore, Batman! This image may make a network engineer or IT person weep, but it was business as usual back in the early days of CERN. 14 racks of equipment, with coaxial cables running everywhere. Let's hope all those patches are connected to the correct ports! What were these two CERN scientists working on? It's up to you to tell us, as CERN has lost the records!

While you're working on your captions, check out the old oscilloscope the standing scientist is using. Scope carts used to be necessary. Today all but the most powerful oscilloscopes weigh in at under 10 pounds.

This week's prize is a Stickvise 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!

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DainBramage wrote 07/09/2015 at 03:24

"Ugh! Hey, Bill? Tell me again why the boss doesn't want to migrate to a wireless system?"

"He said it would be too complicated."

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EncoreTech wrote 07/08/2015 at 22:10

Hans: EUREKA! it works! the first 555 timer is born!

Fritz: Great. Now let's work on making it make it smaller..

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EncoreTech wrote 07/08/2015 at 22:06

"Is your computer plugged in?!" Are you Serious?! -Some tech support...!

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dr. cryogen wrote 07/08/2015 at 18:13

Ever the collector of obsolete doomsday devices, Dr. Retsinis looks on as his latest assistant attempts to install his newest acquisition.

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dougal wrote 07/08/2015 at 14:02

Three months of installation, two weeks of cabling, six hours to compile the test program, and all we get is, "Hello, World"?

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dougal wrote 07/08/2015 at 13:59

Okay, Frank, the troubleshooting guide says, "Step 1: Ensure that your Cyberdyne Particle Collider Control System[tm] power cable is plugged in."

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Lou wrote 07/08/2015 at 02:43

The instruction say that they have to be turned on in the proper sequence, or they all fry.

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Lou wrote 07/08/2015 at 02:39

All of the EMF emited by this equipment is making my hair itch.

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Lou wrote 07/08/2015 at 02:37

You know what would be nice? If you could fit it all on my desk top. Then I could really get lost in my work.

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K.C. Lee wrote 07/07/2015 at 21:59

Don' worry about those wires. They are just there to prevent Bob from borrowing my equipments without asking.

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dougal wrote 07/07/2015 at 20:28

"I'm telling you, I don't care *what* your notes say -- I plugged the cable marked 'A-15' into the port marked 'A-15', and the WiFi is *still* down!"

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Hack wrote 07/07/2015 at 19:44

Yoyodyne is born.

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dougal wrote 07/07/2015 at 19:34

[Bob checks display lights] "B5?"

[Charlie checks his notes] "You sunk my battleship!"

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rrwells97 wrote 07/07/2015 at 19:03

Raoul and Pierre are the first to utter, "nice rack".

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Hack wrote 07/07/2015 at 18:52

CERN lives up to its name acronym. Check Everything Right Now!

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Hack wrote 07/07/2015 at 18:51

Dr. John Bigbooty oversees a Grad student, as the first PONG game is powered up at CERN.

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Hack wrote 07/07/2015 at 18:50

You Grad students are all the same, you want things handed to you, RTFM, don't ask me again how it works.

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Hack wrote 07/07/2015 at 18:48

Early research on the Keurik Coffee Maker finaly pay off once the U235 is in place.

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K.C. Lee wrote 07/07/2015 at 15:09

"Look at that lonely rack. No one want to connect wires to it. How sad!" said George as he contemplate his lack of a social life. "Let me set it up with the scope here, so that it won't feel so lonely."

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Hack wrote 07/07/2015 at 14:53

CERN researchers discover that using sixteen pounds of U235 to heat coffee may not be such a good idea...

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