Caption CERN Contest Week 15

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

Lou wrote 05/17/2015 at 02:00

Radiation smadiation. If it can grow hair on this thing, rub some of it on my head.

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Lou wrote 05/17/2015 at 01:57

OK Bob, keep your finger in the hole while I find something to plug it with. We can't afford to loose any more radiation than we already have.

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Lou wrote 05/17/2015 at 01:54

Pay no attention to the signs, they are only there for the people who don't know any better.

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Steel_9 wrote 05/17/2015 at 01:54

No! Don't turn that knob, you will let out all the magic smoke.

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Lou wrote 05/17/2015 at 01:51

And if I turn this knob, all of the magic smoke gets sucked back in, and we are as good as new.

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David Shamblin wrote 05/16/2015 at 15:49

We should be fine without suits. The new guy says he burnt all the radiation off for us.

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cyplesma wrote 05/16/2015 at 14:12

See this pinky, we take this piece put it in my nuclear accelerator time warping space capsule and we "RULE THE WORLD"

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cyplesma wrote 05/16/2015 at 14:07

See I told you my piece was fine. We take this and start our own garage nuclear generator. Let these losers wallow in "their" arrogance.

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bram wrote 05/16/2015 at 10:45

So, why are we here again? without raditation suit?

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LuckyMrH wrote 05/15/2015 at 22:01

Eureka! We finally proved the 'Smoke Theory!' I told you it would come from here.

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Rollyn01 wrote 05/15/2015 at 21:12

CERN starts conducting research into Lithium Ion battery technology for a new technological advance computer called a "laptop".

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Eric wrote 05/15/2015 at 19:15

Off screen engineer #1: Keep your blasted hand off the samoflange.
Engineer #2: Samoflange? What the hell is a samoflange??

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Tobias W. wrote 05/15/2015 at 17:56

So that leak caused the dishes to become radioactive waste. I told Garry the dishwasher upgrade was unnecessary.

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kia el babili wrote 05/15/2015 at 16:45

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Thomas wrote 05/15/2015 at 16:44

"It is only radioactive when its on, right?"

"Sure thing Ted....sure thing...now lets hurry along with this repair. It is getting hot in here"

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/15/2015 at 15:41

"First, let's try turning it off and then back on." Paul's experience at the Microsoft Help Desk didn't transfer as easily to his new job at CERN as he had originally hoped.

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The Green Gentleman wrote 05/15/2015 at 15:07

"See, we take this diode, hook it up to a penlight, and we'll *literally* be able to light chick's cigarettes from across the room! Get ready to score, dude!" Albrecht's role as Donny's wingman sometimes made him uncomfortable.

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K.C. Lee wrote 05/15/2015 at 15:06

Lesson to be learnt: Do not to divorce someone with a heavy duty industrial laser. At least he got his half of the central heating.

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Jana Marie wrote 05/15/2015 at 14:48

Looks fine to me!

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Brocktoon wrote 05/15/2015 at 14:40

I told them if they left the toaster plugged in this would happen...

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