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Old 10-19-2008, 10:52 PM   #216
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
I'm such a loser, but reading that article made me laugh uncontrollably...

"The helium leaked out"

"About 30 magnets were damaged, and they lost about a ton of helium"

All I could picture was pure chaos, sparks and flames everywhere, and engineers and scientists running around screaming with high squeaky voices from the 1 ton of helium that had leaked out. Then some head scientist barking out orders to shut down the LHC, but he'd sound like a chipmunk.
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