Week 13 of the Caption CERN Contest might be gone, but our intrepid scientist is still rocking his caffeine rush. Thanks for the captions! We’re still trying to figure out if the faces in on the wall are anyone famous – and who exactly are in the cartoon postcards toward the top of the wall. A few readers picked up on what looks to be a compressed air hose in the background. Every office has their coffee station, but we’re betting this particular CERN lab had some seriously frothy milk!
The Funnies:
- “Schroedinger’s fist-bump” – [Jarrett]
- “Even though the other scientists had rejected John’s idea to control the accelerator with a six speed manual transmission, he would often close his eyes and imagine shifting through the gears of a machine with a few trillion electron volts under the hood.”- [MechaTweak]
- “At CERN the coffee doesn’t have a lot of kick, but it does have some punch..” – [THX1082]
The winner for this week is [Matt] with ‘”this is going to make one gooood coffee rush selfie. All my friends are doing it. We post them on the wall.” – CERN staff really were ahead of their time.’ [Matt] won a sweet Robot Head T-Shirt From The Hackaday Store!
Week 14: Prize Upgrade!
We’ve seen a lot of strange equipment here at Hackaday, but Week 14’s image left us at a loss for words, at least for a few minutes. What the heck is this thing? Pressure vessel? RF chamber? Looking at this image and another one depicting a strange device in CERN’s labs, we haven’t the foggiest idea. We do know it’s large, and these two CERN scientists are working hard to get it ready for… something. It also has fins. Fins make everything cooler. Beyond that – we’re leaving this one in the capable hands of our caption team on Hackaday.io.
We’re sweetening the pot a bit this week. Up until now, our weekly prize has been a T-shirt. While clothing is important, we know that hackers love hacking tools, so this week’s prize will be a Bus Pirate from The Hackaday store. We’ll try to change it up each week with a different device.
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!
Thanks for the shirt guys! Can’t wait til it turns up.
Definitely vacuum thing of some kind – black thing at top is an ion pump, plus all the flange clamps.
I bet this is the assembly of a vacuum chamber and that thing below is a cold trap.
I think he is fist-bumping his imaginary friend.
If only Heron could see us now!
After being told to “Cut the red wire or we’re all dead!” Wolfgang regretted never telling anyone he was colour blind.
“Ah ha, to bring Star Trek back on the air, all we need to prove is its real, see here’s Nomad. Err… version 1”
http://www.tvacres.com/images/robots_nomad.jpg
Definiately a manifold attached to a experiment that gets held in a vessel – most likely a cryostat.The tubes at top are for vacuum usually – with the clamps. I think the fins are actually support arms – holding the bottom half of a ball bearing pair – the round vessel part spins – most likely spins in liquid nitrogen or even helium.
What use is such a device? My guess is that it is a particle detector of some sort – or possibly, on a totally different guess, a cryostat enclosed centrifuge.