Baguette Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

[Phenakist]

I wasn't aware that the French were remotely interested in science, and now they use their bread to mess with a black hole machine... They really do pick their timing.

 

[SachielOne]

Well, considering the word "bug" (as in, computer error) stems from an insect (I think it was either a grasshopper or a cockroach? I can't remember) crawling inside a computer and dying, maybe "baguette" will now become scientific parlance for "something's effed up"?

It was a moth, actually.

 

[Otterpoet]

And to think that some alternative universe could have been destroyed by French pastry.

There's the makings of a Sci-Fi Channel movie in there somewhere, I think.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

This is really quite interesting, so this thing (which is suposed to pucnch a hole in space time acording to some people) is open to the air?

Their just lucky some bird didn't take a shit on it, we might have to fight off the combine if that were to happen.

 

[Neonbob]

What would happen if it was a piece of a cupcake?
Really.
That would be much more interesting.
I hereby propose we try to put different types of pastries on sensitive exposed scientific things to see what wonderful things may occur.

 

[Kollega]

Hoh hoh hoh,le Baguette,oui!

No,seriously. It's strange,but kinda stupid.

 

[Echolocating]

This situation seems a bit embarrassing for CERN, but Lamont is not concerned. He says: "This thing is so complicated and so big, it's bound to have problems sometimes."

That's a great excuse. He should keep that one for future use.

A bird dropping a piece of bread? Give me a break. What the report won't tell you is that there was also a spot of Mountain Dew, a fragment of Cheetos and a twenty-sided die.

 

[oppp7]

Damn, if they hadn't found it, something might have happened similar to the Black Mesa Incident.
Isn't there a way to make it so it isn't put out of commission by a loaf of bread?

 

[squid5580]

So you spent billions on this and couldn't fork out the extra 2 bucks for a tarp? Really? And lets not overlook the fact that if a bird dropped it this machinery must be exposed to the elements in the first place. It can survive dirt, dust, rain, sleet and snow but not a random bird with bread.

 

[The Hairminator]

I'm so gonna tell my half french friend about this outrage. And blame him. Personally.

Damn, if they hadn't found it, something might have happened similar to the Black Mesa Incident.
Isn't there a way to make it so it isn't put out of commission by a loaf of bread?

Wait? You're saying you'd want for aliens to pop up all over Cern, and then, afterwards, a gigantic alien invasion force to emerge through the portal to enslave humanity?

 

[Bigeyez]

I don't know what to laugh at in this thread. Do I laugh at the fact that a multi-billion dollar machine was shut down because of a piece of bread, or do I laugh at the fact that builders of said multi-billion dollar machine didn't spring for a $5 dollar tarp or plastic covering for exposed parts that could potentially lead to catastrophic failure and desctruction of their machine.

 

[dalek sec]

Well thank god it wasn't a bagel or something, who know's what would have happened then.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

That is just hilarious. I'm waiting for it to be dropped into the machine, the machine starts working and we get a mutant bread monster.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Bloody Baguette Buggers Boson Boffins By Bird-Based Bombing!!!!

I'm quite proud of that^actually

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Well, that's certainly odd. But it is a big machine. Small accidents like this can have big ramificat- wait, what? The Hadron Collider is doomed? By Fate? [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95418-Is-the-Large-Hadron-Collider-Already-Doomed-by-Fate]

By the Gods! The prophecy has come true! There's only one rational explanation for how this could happen.

Aliens. Ghost aliens! From space! And they're trying to stop us from finding the Minotaur God Particle! The only one who can save us now is the famous Freemason Benjamin Franklin time-travelling to us from the past! WE NEED THAT NICKEL! The time of interstellar warfare is upon us!

 

[Asehujiko]

Fuck It, Drive On. What's the worst that can happen?

Wrecking another magnet array worth $10.000.000.000 in taxpayer's money?

 

[KaiRai]

Owned by bread!

You'd think after all that creation they'd think things through like "No eating by the LHC"

Also, I'm sure that said that its a possibility a bird dropped the bread. Which raises my next question.

How the hell did a bird get in!? I was sure the LHC was indoors.

 

[Fraeir]

I thought the entire LHC facility was located underground? How did a baguette-stealing bird get down there?

...I smell the intervention of the G-Man...

I wonder what would happen if someone took a piss in the LHC at full power...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Imperial Officer: "We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by?"

Grand Moff Tarkin: "Evacuate? In out moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"

*laughs* Nice

Does this mean the LHC is "brown bread"? Wheat is happening to it now? Has it been cob-smacked or will they bun some new parts on?

Hold on...isn't bread meant to be the body of Christ? God's fighting the LHC by transubstantiation!