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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 1:12p.m.
By Dan Satherley

The Large Hadron Collider suffered yet another setback this week when a bird dropped a piece of bread onto it.

At first, CERN scientists blamed the particle-smasher's overheating on "routine tests", but later admitted a baguette had caused the problem.

The collider is located 175m beneath the Franco-Swiss border, which begs the question what a bird was doing down there in the first place.

A serious fault nine days after being switched on in September 2008 led to the collider being shut down until this month.

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Comments [4]

susannah
18 Nov 2009 11:53a.m.

when will the next triels take place

Gil
09 Nov 2009 5:07a.m.

When the thing is finally turned on and the black hole is made, we'll all be sucked into a permanent time loop... it'll probably happen on December 21, 2012...

whata wierd weta
08 Nov 2009 11:49p.m.

Even if it really is the doomsday machine, I wouldnt be too concerned, the thought of being sucked into a massive black hole of death that would swallow up the entire universe does not bother me in the slightest. You see, the aliens will come and destroy it in the last second, oh wait, redirection notices to Alpha Centauri? (my friend works in the post office) what do you mean all the aliens are leaving, they cant leave, what will happen to us when the collider is turned on, NOO dont go, pretty please, take me with you...pleeeeeaase...oh bugger.

John Robb
08 Nov 2009 2:51p.m.

Well if the pessimists are right the collider will have the last laugh, when commisioned the bird will be sucked into the resulting black hole with the rest of us. :)

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