Week 10 of the Caption CERN Contest is a wrap folks! Our surprised scientist brewed up a ton of great captions from our great Hackaday.io community. We may never know what exactly is in that keg/carboy, or what the heck is draining into that bucket. Still, it’s probably safe to say that no one has put this much thought into those particular items since this scientist performed his research.
The Funnies:
- “After many decades of hard work, Dr. Milton and his research was moved down into basement after he complained one too many times about his missing stapler.” – [joe_pumpernickle]
- “Parker! Get down here! Ever since that radioactive spider bit you, you’ve crawling up the walls!”-[DainBramage]
- “It rubs the dielectric grease on its relay contacts or else it gets the hose again” -Team effort from [MechaTweak] and [Nick Sayer]
The winner for this week is [airbuckles] with “Meet Dooglas, experimenting with beer brewing, CERN style. Shown here controlling the critical HOP collider.” [airbuckles] won’t need any buckles for his new Robot T-Shirt From The Hackaday Store!
Week 11: A double-header!
We’ve got something a bit different for week 11: Two images from CERN’s archives! Both of these images feature a lovely PDP-11 from Digital Equipment in Galway, Ireland. They also feature two CERN researchers. The scientist on the left is wearing typical hacker attire – sneakers, jeans, and a comfy shirt. The hacker on the right went for something which we’re guessing was a bit more stylish back in 1982, but hasn’t quite held up to the test of time.
These scientists must have been doing some heavy-duty number crunching to need a PDP-11. Do you know what that strange hand wired rack of equipment is in the center? Do you have any idea where we can find a pair of harem pants like the woman on the left? Write a caption and let us know!
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 CERN know on the original left CERN image, and original right CERN image.
Good Luck!
“Look, Hobbs! The transmogrifier works! Look what it did to Suzy!”
Does anyone have her telephone number?
;-)
!(800) CALL GRANDMA
We can’t ALWAYS be serious.
You’ve come a LONG WAY Baby!
168E insisted Debbie class it up.
I have some magnetic core memories that look like those things in the center but they also look like heat radiators or spark chambers. The one on the left has a row of CAMAC modules (or similar) of PSU’s, amplifiers, discriminators, etc. to make an instrument of some sort. I don’t see the usual DEC hard drives with removable platters.
It is a core memory:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/4455718845_29729b1e3f.jpg
I had half a baguette for lunch and feed the rest to the birds in the parking lot.
(To Beck’s “Two Turntables and a MIcrophone) WHERE IT’S AT! I got two inert gasses in the pressure zone. WHERE IT’S AT! That was a good bond breeeaaak.
PDP-11, President of University of CERN, is pictured here presenting Honours degrees to Fiona, and Jane, who qualified recently with a Bachelors of Hacking
I still used those mid size barrels in a few beam test in the early 2000 at CERN to store the chemicals used to clean the detector surfaces during assembly.
Would be awesome, if the two ladies pictured (or even one of them) were to arrive here with details of what the machine was used for…
The things in the middle cabinet are just the bottoms of two unibus backplanes. Presumably just expansion backplanes for the 11 in the rightmost cabinet. We can’t see any of the devices that are in them, so they could be absolutely anything. It’s the same as seeing the bottom of a PC motherboard and trying to guess what’s in the PCIe slots.
The two disk drives below the CPU look like RL01 removable disk pack drives. 5Mb each if I’m not mistaken. The computer itself I *think* is a PDP-11/34, a small model with a tragic keypad front panel.
“Eighteen hour “Cross my heart” bra; my ASS!!! Lucky to get four before this damn binder full of women breaks me down.”
I came for the large Hadron and all I got was this lousy photo