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On Friday, the European Center for Nuclear Research (Cern) released photos of damage to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Cern's flagship particle accelerator. The particle accelerator was damaged by a liquid helium leak in September, nine days into an experiment to test fundamental theories of physics by colliding beams of protons inside a 27km ring.

This picture shows two of the most severely broken interconnects, which are between the magnets in LHC sectors 3 and 4. The superconducting magnets, used to direct and focus the proton beams in the experiment, are cooled by liquid helium. An electrical fault caused the liquid helium to leak, resulting in a need for repairs that has put the experiment out of action until at least summer 2009.

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I'm curious. Are you even REMOTELY aware of all that we now take as commonplace that is a direct result of NASA, "weapons" development, aircraft design, etc.?

Didn't think so. Have a look her... (Read the rest)
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Could ZDNet do a special feature  V@... | 12/12/08
RE: (A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider)  tom.randstrom@... | 12/12/08
magnets  pgit | 12/12/08
Typical.  Spiritusindomit@... | 12/12/08
The voice of American science education speaks  Hemlock Stones | 12/12/08
Vass you dere, Tscharlie?  fairportfan | 12/13/08
RE: (A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider)  tburzio | 12/12/08
So that explains why the world has not ended.  Kill-the-hype | 12/12/08
Re: So that explains why the world has not ended.  Gradius2 | 12/14/08
let me try again  clava | 12/19/08
RE: (A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider)  richvball44 | 12/12/08
Five billion euros and they create a toy  jhilgeman | 12/15/08
NASA success record ...  bkshort@... | 12/15/08
At least they didn't kill anyone, like NASA, or the Russian Space Agency  Species8472 | 12/15/08
Pioneering  fairportfan | 12/15/08
Mistakes  ShaneK | 12/18/08
???  OldTechie | 05/04/09
RE: (A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider)  JonnyDee | 12/15/08
The most complex machine ever created...  kmp612 | 12/15/08
To All Of The Critics of CERN and the LHC  acad2kman | 12/15/08
Re: To All Of The Critics of CERN and the LHC  mahasamoot | 12/16/08
RE: (A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider)  JOHN_TUOHY | 12/16/08
It Was a Bad Solder Joint that broke the LHC.  ScienceGeek605 | 02/17/09
Great peek.  rayfieldvt | 05/04/09

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