To say Hackaday has passionate folks in our comments section would be an understatement. You’ve made us laugh, made us cry, and made us search high and low for the edit button. From the insightful to the humorous, Hackaday’s comments have it all. So, we’re putting you to work helping out an organization that has done incredible work for science over the years.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has quite a storied 60 year history. CERN has been involved in pursuits as varied as the discovery of neutral currents, to Higgs boson research, to the creation of the World Wide Web. Like any research scientists, CERN staff have always been good about documenting their work. Many of these records are in the form of photographs: hundreds of thousands of them. The problem is that no one kept records as to what each photograph depicts!
The folks at CERN are trying to remedy this by publishing over 120,000 unknown photos taken between 1955 and 1985. The hope is that someone out there recognizes the people and equipment in the photos, and can provide some insight as to what exactly we’re looking at.
Here at Hackaday we think these photos should be seen and discussed, and we’re going to have some fun doing it. To that end, we’re hosting the Caption CERN Contest on Hackaday.io. Each week we’ll add a project log with a new image from CERN’s archives. If you know what the image is, click on CERN’s discussion link for the photo and let them know! If you don’t know, take a shot at a humorous caption. Hackaday staff will pick the best caption each week. Winners will get a shirt from The Hackaday Store.
Here’s how it will work: A new project log will go up every week on Tuesday night at around 9pm PDT. The project log will contain an image from CERN’s archives. You have until the following Tuesday at 9pm PDT to come up with a caption, and drop it in the comments. One entry per user: if you post multiple entries, we’ll only consider the last one.
The first image is up, so head over and start writing those captions!
Good Luck!
>”he hope is that someone out there recognizes the people and equipment in the photos”
Could’nt we just make a script that creates some fake facebook profiles, and use their evil power to find at least people on the pictures ?
How many people old enough to have been scientists between 1955 and 1985 do you know that are on facebook?
Robotic Teleoperation likely for:
Nuclear management
Hostile Environments
Undersea/Submarine operations
Space Exploration
http://s29.postimg.org/z7fs5m6bb/cern_af.jpg
The image isn’t linked to a high resolution version.
Something like:
“…and this is the server where [J something F? name] stored his ???? episode of “My Little Pony”” ?
Voltron, not my little pony. He’s got that sweet blazing sword!
CERN = The first to meltdown. The first recorded meltdown in history for fission tests?
Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire.
That what they do…
Oh, and they also invented the web ;)
CERN? Oh you mean SERN=Société Européenne de Recherche Nucléaire
http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Overview — I died watching this anime and immediately thought of it upon seeing this post.
A machine so advanced it can give an answer, but not the method or question.
But seriously this isn’t the picture follow the link guys
CERN, We’ve got a hadron for science!
“How to explain Cloud Storage to an artist.”
-or-
“All good mainframes go to heaven.”
“This is an artist’s depiction of the forerunner of our robot overlords. Though our overlords ain’t sure if its name is HAL-9000, Glados or Deep Blue, they are certain that they alone are the only ones that can ascend to Skynet. Thus demonstrating our inferiority to them and why they should rule us with an iron fist.”
, and made us search high and low for the edit button.”
Please keep searching…
Please….
Gives new meaning to the phrase ” You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.”
It’s a MANTIS teleoperator.
https://cds.cern.ch/search?ln=en&p=recid%3A917749&rm=wrd
I meant “telemanipulator”. Where is the F***ing EDIT button?
EDIT: In the admin panel lol