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Caption CERN Contest Week 15

A contest log for Caption CERN Contest

Caption CERN, win a prize!

adam-fabioAdam Fabio 05/14/2015 at 04:50149 Comments

Week 15: 5/13/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/20/2015

Accidents happen! When you're working on the bleeding edge of science and technology, things don't always go as planned. In this image, we're looking at what appears to be the result of some sort of failure. We're not sure what the piece of equipment was, but "was" is the proper term - as it's now charred to a crisp.

The two scientists investigating the damage don't seem to be worried about the radiation warning posted on the end of the machine's aperture. Hopefully they know what they're doing!

Last week's prize was a Bus Pirate. This week we're giving away another Dangerous Prototypes design, a Logic Pirate 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

Ryan wrote 05/20/2015 at 10:50 point

"Hey, this thing just stole my quarter!"

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Eric Hertz wrote 05/20/2015 at 08:51 point

"It makes really good shoe-polish, too!"

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techdcs187 wrote 05/20/2015 at 08:04 point

Never worried abt Radiation in the past as it is a thing of  conCERN in Future

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davedarko wrote 05/20/2015 at 07:38 point

it's a 200kW microwave and people still try to cook their food in it??

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txdo_msk wrote 05/20/2015 at 05:28 point

I knew those Fotek SSRs were no good!

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frankstripod wrote 05/20/2015 at 05:17 point

How many times have I told you not to mix 3V and 5V!

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mwylie wrote 05/20/2015 at 04:46 point

You unplugged it ..... right?

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DainBramage wrote 05/20/2015 at 03:58 point

And here we have a rare photo of Cern's new fusion drive engine, which produces and amazing 1.73 kilowatts of energy! Unfortunately, it draws 780 megawatts to do so, but such is the cost of scientific progress!

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DainBramage wrote 05/20/2015 at 03:54 point

Dang it, Fred! When I shout "Fire!", I mean get the fire extinguisher not the flame thrower! That's the third time this week!

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Peter wrote 05/20/2015 at 03:50 point

Damn those Klingon and their blaster ray. They have destroyed my hyper drive engine.

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dustin.dwayne.w wrote 05/20/2015 at 03:44 point

Well that wasn't 1.21 Jigawatts. 

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Lukas Dz. wrote 05/20/2015 at 00:50 point

If we could get this thing to last for two months straight, we might have the next light bulb on our hands!

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ysnkhll wrote 05/19/2015 at 15:26 point

Hair removal; The old way.

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Robot King wrote 05/19/2015 at 01:15 point

Well we "CERN-tly" didn't expect that!

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o0ragman0o wrote 05/19/2015 at 00:41 point

It was a tender moment, when a young HR Giger resigned to his supervisor's sagely advice that, "Science just might not be your thing Hans." 

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Mark Swope wrote 05/18/2015 at 19:06 point

Narrator: "The first microwave ovens were large, heavy and required constant adjustments to prevent them from destroying your meal or even your house!"

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A Logan wrote 05/18/2015 at 15:11 point

Having disastrously charred the burgers at the departmental seminar, Kurt LEPed at the chance to put things right.

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Rollyn01 wrote 05/18/2015 at 14:04 point

"If you wanted to get your shoes as shiny as mine, you should have flipped this switch instead."

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LEVY wrote 05/17/2015 at 23:37 point

Stan plugged the hole, preventing a nuclear disaster. His finger now has super powers.

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K.C. Lee wrote 05/17/2015 at 04:03 point

iFixit tear down -  The power source of thing thing is wielded inside and it is radioactive!  You void your own  life insurance if you are planning to open this thing up.  At least it is screwed in and not glued down like those Apple products.

Featured Parts & Tools: Radiation suit XXL, Angle Grinder, Radiation cleanup kit.

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