Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider
Great, I skip reading the daily run meeting slides once, and then find <i>this</i> in the news (I work on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC [1]).<p>There are a couple of nasty images in the (internal) presentation. That poor weasel tried to eat a cable or something and got completely fried :-(. For those wondering how this can happen, it looks to me like a normal outdoor transformer station, like there are many all around the world. I actually wonder why you don't hear about power outages like this (not at CERN, but in regular cities) more frequently. Maybe public power supplies are more redundant?<p>([1] Note I'm only posting as a private person and not in any official function. Disclaim disclaim yadda yadda.)