Caption CERN Contest Week 24

Week 24: 7/15/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/22/2015

The scientists at CERN always take a personal stake in their work. Pushing mankind's knowledge of science and high energy physics takes a special breed of person. Thankfully this special breed always seems to have a fun side as well. Here we see a CERN scientist posing behind a ... a device. It looks to be some kind of coil or beamline part, though the actual use is thus far a mystery even to CERN's own staff. We do know this shot was taken in June of 1973, the same month as one of the longest solar eclipses on record - over 7 minutes of totality! Was this part of some CERN solar experiment? Could it have been part of a particle accelerator? Was this scientist just working on his latest art project - perhaps part of a dodecagon exploration?

You be the judge!

This week's prize is a Teensy 3.1 from The Hackaday Store.

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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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Matt wrote 07/18/2015 at 21:58

Unfortunately for CERN, Disney wasn't a massive fan of their steampunk Lion King outfit.

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zuul wrote 07/18/2015 at 21:46

can i,... can i put my penis in it?

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tlankford01 wrote 07/18/2015 at 21:05

The Arc Reactor was not built in a day

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tlankford01 wrote 07/18/2015 at 21:00

I know he is adorable, but I do not think Paul Rudd is going to fit in here?!

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jonsmirl wrote 07/18/2015 at 19:51

I am the Face of Boe. Has anyone seen the Doctor?

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Teddy wrote 07/18/2015 at 19:45

As staff at CERN became increasingly bored by coin-shrinking, they decided to develop this co-focal head-shrinker with promising results.

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tyler wrote 07/18/2015 at 19:05

I told you we should have made the stargate bigger.

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Nicholas wrote 07/18/2015 at 19:05

This is just the development version. By the time we take the holographic video-phone to market its appearance will be much more streamlined.

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Kid Iccurus wrote 07/18/2015 at 17:45

"Despite significant quality improvements, complaints of eye cancer eventually forced CERN to abandon reaserch on the quantum television."

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Big Joe wrote 07/18/2015 at 17:43

Unfortunately Dr. Schmitt didn't count on the severe creepiness factor when he designed the face 3D printer.

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Santi wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:56

"This isn't the right size for the microphone holder I requested" thought Dr. Smith while trying to smile in front of the designers.

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Duarte wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:49

Here's Johnny!

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Karl-Wilhelm Wacker wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:34

CERN's medical insurance paln didn't cover plastic surgery, but fully covered face streching.

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explorer200810 wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:32

Klaus was the fun loving, bow tie wearing type of dare devil scientsit who would be eager to try the new high speed electric razor ......... although he is concerned the power cables seem a little too thick.

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K.C. Lee wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:30

CERN's brief attempt into the consumer "Pro" audio market. They lost out to the competitions because they didn't use unidirectional oxygen free copper wires that are blessed by the Tibetan monks. They might be the expert with super conductor magnets, but one hard lesson they have learnt is that you can't spell consumer without the "con" part.

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connorbu wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:27

The new face generator may not have been the most useful invention, but it sure was creepy.

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dandurrghi wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:19

He's smiling now but wait til he starts spinning.

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slashdev wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:09

Your wish is granted! Long live Jambi.

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Jack Laidlaw wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:07

Cern came up with the novel idea of using a face to power this rotary engine, to power it you need to frown them smile as fast as you can, As you can see it's in the smile stage in this photo.

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Chris Barrett wrote 07/18/2015 at 16:03

As with anything at CERN, even Dr Smith's retirement gift picture frame was drastically over-engineered.

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