Week 12 of the Caption CERN Contest and the strange stringed scientific instrument it brought along are both history. As always, thank you for your captions! They provided quite a few chuckles in the busy week gearing up for our Hackathon. We’re still not sure exactly what is being built here – Our best guess is it’s some sort of detector for emissions. But what sort of emissions? Was CERN looking for electric fields, magnetic fields, or something else entirely? It’s interesting to note that just as the photographer’s flash reflected in all 5 layers of wire, an RF signal would bounce off the rear reflector and strike the wires.
The Funnies:
- “Ooh, it’s so beautiful, is this a harp?”
“Close, it is for HAARP” – [Federico Churca-Torrusio] - “Bones was right this thing will scatter your molecules across space.”- [scott galvin]
- “Eight years of schooling and two post doctoral fellowships just so I can make quilts. I should have been a dentist.” – [Narfnezzle Nickerbots]
The winner for this week is [THX1082] with “CERN’s early attempts at developing “String theory”. They’re doing it wrong. [THX1082] will be at his next hackerspace meeting wearing a CRT Android T-Shirt From The Hackaday Store!
Week 13: Coffee time at CERN!
Every week we get at least one caption explaining that the strange piece of equipment included in that week’s image is a coffee maker. I thought it would only be right to include this shot of CERN’s real coffee nook, and a scientist about to enjoy a fresh cup of liquid “get ‘er done”. I have to thank CERN’s photographer for grabbing this slice of life shot!
It’s worth taking the time to check out the high res JPEG direct from CERN, as you can really zoom in on the post cards and photographs in the background. One even says “Tout va tres bien” – which Google translates to “Everything is going very well”. Some jokes never get old!
Add your humorous caption as a comment to this project log. Make sure you’re commenting on the contest log, not on the contest itself.
As always, if you actually have information about the image or the people in it, let CERN know on the original image discussion page.
Good Luck!
Boy this new harp is hard to play but the concert hall sound makes up for it!
“Brian Benchoff practices for his new job as a Hooter’s waitress.”
After their last experiment together, all future fist bumps were now Invisible.
This is how you know when your working on a big project. When they release photos with “We don’t know who these people are or what they are doing.
You could really froth up your java with that shop air supply!
The budget for CERNs Wizardry and Witchcraft Division was woefully lacking.
Here we can see David working hard on implementing the RFC 2324 HTCPCP to streamline CERNs operations.
As you can see, a mathematician is a device that turns coffee into theorems.
Just having the words “contest” and “week 13” in the title of this post clearly shows how obsessed with contests HaD has become.