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Caption CERN Contest Week 6
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Week 4: 3/10/2015 - 9pm PDT 3/17/2015Here we go again! Time to get those captions ready! What do you think is going on in this image from CERN's archives? Link to the original CERN image.CERN scientists and engineers often find themselves in interesting...

Caption CERN Contest Week 7
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Week 7: 3/17/2015 - 9pm PDT 3/24/2015Ladies and gentlemen, start your captions! What do you think is going on in this image from CERN's archives?Link to the original CERN image.CERN scientists and engineers often find themselves in interesting positions....

Caption CERN Contest Week 5
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Week 4: 3/3/2015 - 9pm PDT 3/10/2015Another week, another chance to win a T-Shirt by captioning a CERN image!Link to the original CERN image.Even CERN scientists have to stop and show off their facilities to guests sometimes. Is that what is going on...

Caption CERN Contest Week 4
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Week 4: 2/24/2015 - 9pm PDT 3/3/2015Another week, another chance to win a T-Shirt by captioning a CERN image!Link to the original CERN image.High energy physics experiments, racks of equipment, and three interesting fellows! What do you think is going...

Caption CERN Contest Week 8
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Week 8: 3/25/2015 - 9pm PDT 4/1/2015Caption, Caption, who's got the winning Caption?What do you think is going on in this image from CERN's archives?Link to the original CERN image.Some scientists and engineers at CERN appreciate their equipment more...

Caption CERN Contest Week 12
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Week 12: 4/22/2015 - 9pm PDT 4/29/2015One of the best parts of running the Caption CERN Contest is checking out the new images on CERN's servers each week. Every week I find new images to zoom in on. I trace wires, look at equipment ID cards, and generally...

Caption CERN Contest Week 13
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Week 13: 4/29/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/6/2015Coffee time at CERN! Every week we get at least one caption explaining that the strange piece of equipment included in that week's image is a coffee maker. I thought it would only be right to include this shot of...

Caption CERN Contest Week 9
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Week 9: 4/1/2015 - 9pm PDT 4/8/2015Some 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...

Caption CERN Contest Week 22
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Week 22: 7/1/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/8/2015Holy 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...

Caption CERN Contest Week 1
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Week 1: 2/2/2015 - 9pm PDT 2/10/2015 Yes, you get an extra day this week. Link to the original CERN link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1761017What the heck is going on in this image? We've got a man operating robot arms, cameras, old school oscilloscopes,...

Caption CERN Contest Week 2
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Week 1: 2/10/2015 - 9pm PDT 2/17/2015Link to the original CERN image. What do we have here? Some sort of high pressure or high vacuum chamber with all sorts of ports and wires. Motors, pumps, and a scientist who understandably looks rather proud of her...

Caption CERN Contest Week 11
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Week 11: 4/15/2015 - 9pm PDT 4/22/2015We've got something a bit different this week: Two images from CERN's archives! Both of these images feature a lovely PDP-11 from Digital Equipment in Galway, Ireland. They also feature two CERN researchers. The...

Caption CERN Contest Week 24
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Week 24: 7/15/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/22/2015The 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...

Caption CERN Contest Week 10
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Week 10: 4/8/2015 - 9pm PDT 4/15/2015There's something for everyone in this image from CERN's achieves. Gas bottles, chemicals, huge concrete blocks, high voltage wires, and a rather surprised looking scientist. What sort of experiment would require...

Caption CERN Contest Week 16
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Week 16: 5/20/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/27/2015This is not your Father's POV display! Scientists at CERN have came up with some amazing science advancements. They've also needed ways to display the data they collect. This image may depict some incredible new...

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