Mr. Palfrader, would you please get out of that tube?
Yes, this appeared in Slashdot, not in Debian. But still, it's
perfectly good d-curiosa material:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/29/1858256/weasel-apparently-shuts-down-worlds-most-powerful-particle-collider
Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider
A small mammal has sabotaged the world's most powerful scientific
instrument. The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile superconducting
machine designed to smash protons together at close to the speed
of light, went offline overnight. Engineers investigating the
mishap found the charred remains of a furry creature near a
gnawed-through power cable. "We had electrical problems, and we
are pretty sure this was caused by a small animal," says Arnaud
Marsollier, head of press for CERN, the organization that runs
the $7 billion particle collider in Switzerland. Although they
had not conducted a thorough analysis of the remains, Marsollier
says they believe the creature was "a weasel, probably." The
shutdown comes as the LHC was preparing to collect new data on
the Higgs Boson, a fundamental particle it discovered in
2012. The Higgs is believed to endow other particles with mass,
and it is considered to be a cornerstone of the modern theory of
particle physics.
CERN says the creature may have been a marten.
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