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Caption CERN Contest Week 9

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adam-fabioAdam Fabio 04/02/2015 at 04:2665 Comments

Week 9: 4/1/2015 - 9pm PDT 4/8/2015

Some of CERN's experiments take place in the miles of tunnels around their labs in Meyrin, on the border of France and Switzerland. It looks like this image was taken in one of those tunnels. It's definitely an interesting shot! CERN's documentation for the image has been to history, so it's up to you to explain what's going on here!

Link to the original CERN image.

Add your humorous caption as a comment to this project log. Make sure you're commenting on this project log, not on the project 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

Aaron Smith wrote 04/03/2015 at 09:15 point

"CERN: where the true and undeniable values of the Universe will be found in the void between the classes."

On the left we observe:

Boiler suit, hard toe boots, roll your own cigarettes, and an openly exposed skull adorned with receding hairline (not much point protecting this, is there... not with present unemployment levels and labour so cheap).

In the centre we observe:

Velvet suit with tailored shirt and tie, bespoke Italian shoes, handcrafted pipe filled with the finest Dutch blended tobacco, and the finest cranial protection device available (that's where the knowledge is stored, and we're told he's the only one that knows how it's all supposed to work).

On the right we observe:

The "isolement bon" or "good isolation"; this point is where the gap, or void, between the classes is at is strongest. The cosmic energies within the void will be strongest at this point, and by firing charged particles through the void it is theorized that the greatest mysteries of the modern age will be answered by a well attired gentlemen.

At CERN we strongly believe the answer to the question of life the Universe and everything is not 42, but there's no point having the lower classes getting uppity about it.

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andy.stallard wrote 04/03/2015 at 09:06 point

Dudley takes to his trusty pipe, when he realises he'll never play for Manchester United after the reactor leak.

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andy.stallard wrote 04/03/2015 at 08:57 point

Weirdly, the only evidence of the reactor leak was the shortening of right limbs.

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o0ragman0o wrote 04/03/2015 at 04:35 point

Yes, Watson, you have every right to be incredulous, but it is elementry.  Those two people we've been following are proof we are trapped in a toroidal universe. 

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slartibartfast wrote 04/03/2015 at 04:19 point

Elementary, my dear Watson. The proton was obviously annihilated here.

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Villu Orav wrote 04/03/2015 at 04:18 point

Construction supervisor, Max, takes a big puff from his trusty pipe, inhales and then shouts from the bottom of his lungs: "FLUID LEAK IN ISLE ONE, I REPEAT LEAK IN ISLE ONE!" Then takes another puff, and calmly adds: "Bob, clean it!"

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Villu Orav wrote 04/03/2015 at 04:11 point

Now presenting, the pocket-sized vacuum-chamber, with good isolation flanges, axis manipulators, windows, secondary electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, ultraviolet photoelectron microscope, X-Ray photoelectron microscope, Argon ion sputtering. Only 1,800 francs, c'mon, it's a steal. And if you buy now, you will get a free Bob with the merchandi... Of course I work here, why do you ask?

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Villu Orav wrote 04/03/2015 at 04:01 point

Max! Where did you learn to write? Or should I ask, where you didn't? It is I-S-O-L-E-M-E-N-T. Don't leave letters out just because you... Why I think it was you?! Because, Bob is a construction worker, he probably even doesn't know what a pen is...

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pelrun wrote 04/03/2015 at 03:40 point

After he passed the fourth identical engineer, John suddenly realised the folly of running away from a malfunctioning segment in a ring-shaped corridor.

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Mateus Silva wrote 04/03/2015 at 01:37 point

Making my way downtown. Walking fast.

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bennettmarks439 wrote 04/03/2015 at 01:04 point

We did it, we created a time warp, and this guy from the 60's complete with velour pants just showed up.

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Leonard wrote 04/03/2015 at 00:34 point

Billy looked on as the James, the workplace bully, was about to walk in to Billy's electrified puddle of water.

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sstsalazar wrote 04/02/2015 at 23:21 point

Wait,Rudolph...this is not my yacht.

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alister.peters1990 wrote 04/02/2015 at 22:35 point

Although the hard hat was marked "max" it still felt small on my head. However, as safety auditor it is my job to keep a lid on these things.

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alister.peters1990 wrote 04/02/2015 at 22:23 point

After informing my younger brother that the isolemen was in fact not "Bon" I paused to wonder, what's the purpose of these 8 inch wide impact resistant bollards spread 15 feet apart?

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Lou wrote 04/02/2015 at 22:09 point

I don't know Bob, do you think we have a big enough band-aid to fix this one?

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Lou wrote 04/02/2015 at 22:03 point

Wow, I guess there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

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Rémy B wrote 04/02/2015 at 21:03 point

Guys, did you see my protons? I think that they went in this direction.

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ca5m1th wrote 04/02/2015 at 20:02 point

This is Bob. Bob made a BAD ENGINEERING MISTAKE. Bob is going to spend some time in THE CORNER. Corners are not easy to find in a ring, so this is Bob's BAD CORNER.

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alan wrote 04/02/2015 at 19:47 point

Alas! Sherlock solves the mystery of the light at the end of the tunnel.

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