{"id":21041,"date":"2016-04-30T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2021-06-01T05:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:14:33","slug":"eagles-may-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21041","title":{"rendered":"Eagles may soar…."},"content":{"rendered":"

But weasels don\u2019t get sucked into jet engines. No, instead weasels just shut down the worlds most powerful atom smasher.<\/p>\n

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Good day all. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. While I was perusing the STEM sites, I saw this rather interesting story on Fox News. It seems that a weasel decided to commit suicide and take out the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva Switzerland the other day. According to Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A weasel\u2019s encounter with the world\u2019s most powerful atom-smasher didn\u2019t turn out that well for the complex machine or the animal. <\/b>The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, was shut down Friday after a weasel chewed through its wiring and caused a power outage, Sky News reports.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Squirrel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hmm, normally, when a very expensive piece of equipment is taken out by a rodent, it\u2019s usually a squirrel that does the deed. I guess the weasels became jealous and decided that two can play at this game.<\/p>\n

The furry creature met its demise after nibbling on a wire connected to a 66,000-volt transformer powering the collider, Sky News reported. <\/b><\/p>\n

What a shocking development!<\/p>\n

In an internal incident report the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which runs the 17-mile circuit under the Swiss-French border, said it was “not the best week for LHC!\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

\"captain_obvious\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that the Large Hadron Collider is on standby mode, following technical issues in the last 24 hours, including a power cut due to the passage of a weasel,\u201d CERN spokesperson Arnaud Marsollier told the National Geographic<\/a> in an email Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Epic_Facepalm_by_RJTH\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe concerned part of the LHC stopped immediately and safely, though some connections were slightly damaged due to an electrical arc,\u201d he said.<\/b><\/p>\n

I would assume they have to scrape the charcoal briquet that was formally known as Wally the Weasel off the electrical systems.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear why weasels, or martens, and other small mammals might munch on electrical wires but it\u2019s not uncommon, Roland Kays, head of the Biodiversity Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, told the National Geographic.<\/b><\/p>\n

What can I say? Birds gotta fly and rodents gotta gnaw on live high tension lines. I guess the other big questions is, how did that now ex-weasel get into the facility in the first place? I would have thought the designers and builders would have taken precautions against kamikaze runs by our small and toothy friends. I guess not and now Wally is no more.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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