LHC knocked out by ANOTHER power failure. 'Birdy bread-bomber from the future' involved?

[jayfish]

Source: The Register UK

Exclusive The Large Hadron Collider - most puissant particle-punisher ever assembled by the human race - has suffered another major power failure, knocking not only the atomsmasher itself but even its associated websites offline. The machine remains unserviceable at present. However its crucial cryogenics seem to have been unaffected, and no catastrophic damage is thought to have occurred.

News of the outage emerged when keen amateur LHC-watchers (at independent site the LHC Portal) noticed that most of CERN's web presence related to the Collider had disappeared. Presently much of it returned, and with it came an official account of events released by control-room staff.

Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/lhc_power_failure_again/

[gvstn]

1. Thanks for the heads up! n/t

[Posteritatis]

2. CERN just can't win, can they? (nt)

[Delphinus]

3. Damn!

Hard to believe this keeps happening.

[girl gone mad]

5. Not hard to believe at all.

This is a very complex machine functioning at unprecedented energy levels. Failures are to be expected.

Last I heard, the beams were ramped up to over 1100 GeV.

Here are the results of the first collisions: http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5430

[Angleae]

4. Is it too early to start calling it cursed?

[roguevalley]

6. if it is the future trying to stop a bad action in the present from happening,

it is almost warmly endearing. we made it. we're still technological. I can sleep tonight. :evilgrin:

[Ready4Change]

11. Yes.

It is arguably the largest and most complex machine humans have yet created, operating at power levels we've never before attempted. It's not like they have thousands of these out there with which to shake out all the bugs. It's a one of a kind machine. With all those parts operating at those intensities I'd be shocked if there WEREN'T failures at this stage, and expect there to be a few more over the coming years.

[Capt_Nemo]

7. Follow the updates on http://twitter.com/cern

Latest update:

LHC running, with beam-commissioning under way again since yesterday evening, following power cut on CERN main site

about 3 hours ago from web

http://twitter.com/cern

[jayfish]

8. Ummm... Why Was This Locked And Moved From LBN?? -NT-

Jay

[Nihil]

9. There seems to be a distinct anti-science mood in DU these days ...

... and, although GD is probably the worst offender as a forum,
the LBN mods are catching up ...

[jayfish]

10. I'm Watching This One Closely.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4169226

Maybe hard science that is happening this very instant isn't nearly as dramatic or newsworthy as speculation over whether "The Day After Tomorrow" happened yesterday. :shrug:

Jay

[IndianaGreen]

12. Until LHC produces a black hole that sucks us all in

then it will make LBN!