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<OT> LHC could be an "Improbability Drive"

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Conundrum
Sat Nov 07 2009, 02:37PM Print
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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 		Link2

um... what are the odds of this?

One of my friends described the LHC as "Murphy's Law incarnate"...

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Z28Fistergod
Sat Nov 07 2009, 03:07PM
Z28Fistergod Registered Member #2040 Joined: Fri Mar 20 2009, 10:13PM
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Online Article wrote ...
The bread was discovered on a busbar - an electrical connection inside one of eight buildings above ground on the 17-mile (27km) circuit in the Swiss countryside.

So how does bread dropped by a bird or plane make its way inside the building?
And how does a piece of bread on a bus bar "paralyse" the HV installation?
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Conundrum
Sat Nov 07 2009, 03:26PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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 		looks like the bread was dropped through a vent, and shorted out the busbar... at least thats what the article suggests.

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Z28Fistergod
Sat Nov 07 2009, 07:16PM
Z28Fistergod Registered Member #2040 Joined: Fri Mar 20 2009, 10:13PM
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 		I guess they should have done conductivity measurements on objects that randomly fall from the sky, then they could have prepared for this by putting a grating on the vent. That thing costs how much, and they can't afford a grate? I'm sure they have grates, so I can't believe it came in through a vent.

A more likely scenario is that there is an Al Qaeda operative working as a technician, and he discovered the power of half eaten sandwiches. Look out world! Injuries due to sandwich attacks are projected to increase by 34 thousand percent!
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Chris Russell
Sat Nov 07 2009, 08:04PM
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Z28Fistergod wrote ...

So how does bread dropped by a bird or plane make its way inside the building?
And how does a piece of bread on a bus bar "paralyse" the HV installation?

Quantum tunneling, clearly.

I assume the bread led to a short of some kind, which would in turn lead to protection circuits kicking in and shutting down the high voltage. Why there was no alert until temperatures started to rise, I do not know.
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Avalanche
Sat Nov 07 2009, 09:01PM
Avalanche Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
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 		It seems so unlikely, I reckon they just don't want to admit that these guys Link2 threw it up there on their lunch break cheesey
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thedatastream
Mon Nov 09 2009, 09:18AM
thedatastream Registered Member #505 Joined: Sun Nov 19 2006, 06:42PM
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 		As the bit of bread fell onto the busbar, it presumably thought "oh no not again!"
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Steve Conner
Mon Nov 09 2009, 10:35AM
Steve Conner Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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 		Lol! Best Hitch Hiker's Guide reference yet.
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Nicko
Mon Nov 09 2009, 04:37PM
Nicko Registered Member #1334 Joined: Tue Feb 19 2008, 04:37PM
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 		I used to work at CERN in the 1980s - The power, at least to the French side, came over the Jura from the North.

We were always having power problems as the pylons were continually struck by lightning from electric storms (of which there were a lot).
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rp181
Tue Nov 10 2009, 02:38AM
rp181 Registered Member #1062 Joined: Tue Oct 16 2007, 02:01AM
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 		one of these days, there just gonna forget the mistakes and switch the power on just to get it over with...
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