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You must admit though, the thing is bloody impressive, I'd like to know how much money has been sunk into it?
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£4.4 billion Deftoned. Whether that includes all previous R&D or just the build costs, I dunno
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Yeah it was about £5 billion I think, thats what I read anyway.
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I fucking hate scientists.
If it aint Manc its wank!
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' Wrote:Technicians had to be on the lookout for potential problems: There are on the order of 2,000 magnetic circuits in the machine. This means there are 2,000 power supplies which generate the current which flows in the coils of the magnets,"
If there was a fault with any of these, he said, it would have stopped the beam. They were also wary of obstacles in the beam pipe which could prevent the protons from completing their first circuit.
Mr Myers has experience of the latter problem. While working on the LHC's predecessor, a machine called the Large-Electron Positron Collider, engineers found two beer bottles wedged into the beam pipe - a deliberate, one-off act of sabotage.
The culprits - who were drinking a particular brand which advertising once claimed would "refresh the parts other beers cannot reach" - were never found.
" shocking cock-up, the mice were furious "
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Been hearing all about this today on the radio and I have to say - What the fuck is the point?
Possibly suck the entire world into a black hole and kill eveyone just so you can find out if the big bang theory might be plausible? So what? What if it is fucking plausible? Even if you found out that the big bang definitely started life, what possible use does that info have???
Load of old bollocks if you ask me
Wishing it was like the old days again
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That sounds like a really good film.
Oh what a feelin! When you're dunking, on the ceilin!
