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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Thomas wrote 07/04/2015 at 21:23

ok Bill, thats the last of it. I swear if you ever bring your kids in here again I will kill you

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RoGeorge wrote 07/04/2015 at 21:05

- And that will be the last wire, Doctor.
- Finally!
- Now, if we did it right, in 20 years it will be flying cars, and no wires. I'm so happy!

20 years later...

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Christine Hampton wrote 07/04/2015 at 21:04

I think I lost an electron back here, Bob. I'm positive.

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Ben wrote 07/04/2015 at 20:46

Why can't we build an Arduino controlled doorbell like others do ? I guess we have lost the contact wire, again.

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The48thRonin wrote 07/04/2015 at 19:57

It says to unplug that black wire... no! The other black wire!

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Nicholas wrote 07/04/2015 at 19:34

You have the dead bulb tester? Good, now we may be able to get these Christmas lights working. Just start over there on the left.

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covey.matt wrote 07/04/2015 at 19:27

The early years required giant blocks of ice to cool the equipment as seen in the background.

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MECHANICUS wrote 07/04/2015 at 19:24

It says here to connect green #341 to red #28, Bob? are you listening?

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vegipete wrote 07/04/2015 at 19:16

Charles starts the insurance claim paperwork while Isaac laments the loss of his beloved "Electric Horseman" cartridge that was in the stolen 8-track tape player.

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Reg wrote 07/04/2015 at 18:18

Doctor Bruce Banner checks, with his mobile gamma radiation detector, that the extra Lead blocks are indeed shielding the computer from the accelerator when active. It is sunny outside, the birds are chirping, what could possibly go wrong today.

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Chief Points wrote 07/04/2015 at 17:05

As Bob gazes upon the spaghetti bowl of wiring, he comes to the sudden realization that he can't keep his color blindness a secret any longer.

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jakewisher125 wrote 07/04/2015 at 16:56

"it was only after counting all of the patch cables that Dr Miterson realised some prankster had added another cable, rendering the system useless. Fortunately, the good Dr had an assistant for sorting out problems like this"

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DiplodocusDad wrote 07/04/2015 at 16:24

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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Reg wrote 07/04/2015 at 16:21

They had assembled the fully loaded Moog synthesizer, but no where in the manual did it mention what to do with the psychedelic kinetoscope.

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Reg wrote 07/04/2015 at 15:33

"Where does G-12 go, Tommy?" "Says here it should go between those two racks, I told you we should have put the walls back more."

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David Boucher wrote 07/04/2015 at 15:29

Early attempts at Napster were doomed to fail on the original 0.10BaseT network.

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Reg wrote 07/04/2015 at 15:21

They had finally setup the SEM , now they were sure to win the where’s Waldo competition.

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joesugar wrote 07/04/2015 at 15:16

I told you it wasn't a good idea to let those "spaghetti code" programmers help with the hardware design.

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joe_pumpernickle wrote 07/04/2015 at 15:14

Here you can see CERNs preferred method of training their emergency technicians using the simulated "Worst Case Scenario" room. If you look closely you can see the 384th wire from the right is plugged into socket 14 instead of socket 41; and these trainees will discover the problem in an impressive 3hrs 14min.

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Reg wrote 07/04/2015 at 14:57

You will never track down the problem, even, with that Time-domain reflectometer, if IT "borrowed" a Tee connector and cunningly replaced it with a straight through.

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