The Caption CERN Contest has been rolling along since the first week of February. We’re in our 6th week now, and the users over at Hackaday.io have given us some great captions!
Here are the results from Week 5:
The Funnies:
Guy #1 “Pay close attention: If anything goes wrong, press this BIG RED BUTTON. Then count to ten.”
Guy #2″ What does it do?”
Guy #1 “Absolutely nothing… it just gives you something to do while you’re dying a horrible, painful death.” – [Lorin Briand]
“We’ve miniaturized the mainframe – only 21,480 tubes!.” – [Tim]
“Watch my finger…now, you are getting very sleepy…fund this project…sleeeeepy…” – [Erik Ratcliffe]
The winner this week is [johnowhitaker] with the following caption:
‘Any moment now…’ An elderly visitor waits skeptically for the ‘funny tingling’ experienced by anyone within 3m of the machine as it runs a specific program.
Congrats [johnowhitaker], you’re getting a free CRT Android T-shirt from The Hackaday Store!
Week 6 just started! Caption the image for your chance to win a T-shirt of your own!
CERN scientists and engineers often find themselves in interesting positions. However, we’re not sure if this CERN staffer ever expected to be quite where he is now!
The only hard information we have to go on is the album this title of the image: “SEPARATEURS ELECTRO STATICS MONTAGE DES ELECTRODES”. Our French isn’t as good as our C++ or x86 assembly, but that sounds like electrostatic separators. Which separators, on which beamline, and in what decade? Your guess is as good as our’s, or CERN’s for that matter.
Add your humorous caption as a comment to this project log. Make sure you’re commenting on the project log, not on the project itself. As always, if you actually have information about the image or the people in it, let the folks at CERN know on the original image discussion page.
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Good Luck!
The french translates to Electro static separators, electrodes assembly
“Behind in your research? Projects overdue? Trouble getting out of bed in the morning and getting moving through the day? Join us, as Barry here demonstrates how just 30 minutes a week inside our new accelerator can really get things moving!”
“I used to be months behind schedule, now I’m getting things done weeks ahead of time! You wouldn’t believe what else I can do!” – Barry
A hint if you are a german engineering student in Darmstadt:
In April the VDI offers a trip to the CERN for members, costs: 60€…
I’ll be there for sure!
same here at EPFL :)
Cool! Do you know the date?
We plan 11.4.
Can you post some specifics ?
I’m very eager to join =)
I can tell you that it was rescheduled…
Have a look at the facebook group of “VDI Hochschulgruppe Darmstadt”
“Pass me that banana please Luigi”
My kid didn’t believe me that the working world was a rat race…. until he saw this picture of me in the atomic hamster wheel.
Hamsters can do this so why can’t I?
http://s21.postimg.org/fgkkhtk53/af_1_sm.jpg
I didn’t know you can high off people. Gives new meaning to the term “Soylent Green”.
bet i could pinch one off in here an no one would know
“You’re sure that it will make me stronger? It won’t turn me green, or anything, will it? I’ll get angry if it does, and you won’t like me when I’m angry…”
Cern’s secret brewmaster, trying to disguise the conspirative beer tubes as something highly scientific.
As public always suspected, there was no AI (artificial intelligence) in CERN’s AKM (all-knowing-machine). Just a man in white overalls pushing some rods and buttons.
Don’t forget folks – your caption doesn’t count unless you post it as a comment to the project log! http://hackaday.io/contest/4200-caption-cern-contest/log/14968
attempts to power the particle accelerator using a human sized hamster wheel proved unsuccesful.
L.H.C.——
LOTA
HARDCORE
CHRONIC. LHC WORLDS
LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE
BONG!!!!!!!
“Well, Mr. Prime, your prostate checks out withing normal limits, but I’m not liking the look of these bulging capacitors…”
Optimus Prime’s Proctologist
Tim Berners-Lee checks the swaged fittings in his newly invented “Intertubes”.
Okay, that’s actually pretty good.
Frenchman ‘Des Electrodes’ has trouble setting his watch to sync with precision Swiss Time.