Appropos that the French word for bread is 'pain'. Terry
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I kid you not. See: > > http://slatest.slate.com/id/2234859/entry/4/ > > Chunk of Baguette Stalls Swiss Particle Collider > > The Large Hadron Collider has endured its share of mishaps, but perhaps none > so befuddling as the most recent: a mysterious piece of baguette has caused > one of its cooling units to fail. The collider, which has cost the CERN > particle physics laboratory in Geneva more than $6 billion, was supposed to > become fully operational more than a year ago, but a faulty magnet > connection and a helium leak have delayed the launch. As for Thursday's > errant chunk of bread: "Nobody knows how it got there," a spokeswoman told > the Times of London. "The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, > either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane." > >
