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Gallery - Science supermachines in the scrapyard

newscientist.com — When a particle accelerator reaches the end of the road, the physicists hold a wake for its death. Then the electromagnets are powered down, cryogenic liquids drained and lights turned off. What happens next is less certain. Some part are reused, other sent to scrapyards, or turned into art.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 12, 2008

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  • duggtodeath, on 11/11/2008, -0/+19They're waiting for you, Dr.Freeman. In the teeeeest chamber.
  • blueblazer17, on 11/11/2008, -0/+18Dugg for the stunning "obsolete copper radiofrequency cavity from the Large Electron Positron collider now lies in the garden at CERN". I don't know what it is, but it's gorgeous!
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7Ditto. The first thing I thought when I saw that photo was "STEAMPUNK! WOO!"

    Seriously...it looks like some kind of steampunk bathysphere/submersible.
  • cmorriss, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5I want to see a junkyard wars take place at the Fermilab scrapyard. The challenge: Build a relativistic speed potato gun and land a pile of mashed potatoes on the moon.
  • cyrusuncc, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5Some of those pieces would make an awesome addition to a tree house
  • jsauter, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3It kind of looks like an espresso machine.
  • Weswoman, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2Cool! I work in the Particle Physics field and I always see different collaborations using components from old experiments to save money.

    Many underground experiments use ultra pure metals which are at a premium right now, so why not just recycle it?
  • rozlovesben, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2agreed
  • TheMidnight, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2Why, Marvin Martian uses them for Eludium PU-32 Explosive Space Modulator parts, of course.
  • CaptTu, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2Somebody forgot to tell Fermi lab they were closed...

    http://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/experiments/index.ht ...

  • Spelvin, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2In agreement as well, though why the heck couldn't they have at least made a slightly ornamental mount for it too? the base so distracts from its awesomeness.
  • TekTrixter, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2bigger challenge, make mashed potatoes that are not lumpy.
  • oninbonin, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Those are awesome!
  • clafleche, on 11/12/2008, -3/+25 pictures? Seriously?

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