LHC STOP 0x0000007B (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE)

Well, that didn’t take long. The Large Hadron Collider suffered an electrical problem and needed to be taken offline.

The LHC “is still in commissioning phase, it’s a very complex tool and it’s normal for there to be stoppages,” a CERN spokeswoman told AFP.

Full article here

I have obtained a partial transcript from a recent meeting regarding the outage at LHC headquarters… I have posted it unaltered below.

Marty McFly: [looks through a camcorder] This is uh… This is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh, does it run, like, on regular unleaded gasoline?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick – plutonium.
Marty McFly: Uh, plutonium? Wait a minute. Are-
[lowers the camcorder]
Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Hey, hey, hey. Keep rolling. Keep rolling, there.
[Marty raises the camcorder]
Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no, no, no. This sucker’s electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty McFly: Doc, you don’t just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium.

Large Hadron Collider Live webcams!

Finally, live cameras of the LHC during its…colliding.   I’ve been watching for 16 hours straight. Wont you join me?

Live LHC cams

This makes it all worth it….

No matter what happens with the Large Hadron Collider, the below video shows what the same cluster of scientists can do when they really put their mind to something. EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!11! This is the single greatest piece of video to grace the internets.  Hey, remember when I said the video was the “greatest piece ever”, I mean that its worth watching but probably isn’t the greatest piece ever.  I just needed something to ramble on and on about to fill up space, and the Max Headroom photo wasn’t cutting it.

Note: This video was officially released by CERN.

ITS ALIVE!!!!! ALIVE!!!!!!

The Large Hadron Collider glow plugs were warm and she started up the first time.  BBC has all the details. Also there is a pretty neat video of stuff doing some stuff.

Large Hadron Collider on track for launch next week

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is still on track for a September 10th power up.  It is still in cold status,  but injection test have been completed and this thing is ready to rock.

Check out the photogallery.

Click here for more info about the LHC project.

Check out that guy above…