As week 20 of the Caption CERN Contest comes to a close, we can say that this scientist may have been a bit sleepy from all his hard work, but all our caption writers certainly were not! Thank’s to everyone who stayed up late and entered.
Whiteboards and their associated dry erase markers have become a staple in every office, school, and home. It’s getting hard to remember that everyone used blackboards not so long ago. High energy physics,and flammable dust probably are not a good mix. Let’s hope our sleeping scientist cleaned the erasers outdoors after he woke up.
The Funnies:
- “A weekend at CERNies”- [Rob]
- “After bitten by the Schrödinger’s cat, Doc Brown acquired the most useful power of a cat – being able to sleep anywhere, any time.” – [K.C. Lee]
- “CERN’s infamous “wind tunnel” experiments” – [Rollyn01]
This week’s winner is [MechaTweak] with “During the great blackboard shortage of ’66, scientists went to great lengths to protect their unfinished work from premature erasure”. [MechaTweak] describes himself as a “Mild mannered design engineer by day, father of four crazy kids by night.” With all those kids running around, he’s going to enjoy having a Stickvise from The Hackaday Store. You can bet he’ll be using the Stickvise to solder up some boards for Shower water saver, his entry in the 2015 Hackaday Prize.
Week 21
These two CERN scientists are looking through some kind of optical apparatus. There is a plano-convex lens mounted on an adjustable arm. The scientists appear to be looking through a window while adjusting some controls.
Is this some kind of physics experiment? Could it be research into psychomotor acuity? Maybe the dark-haired scientist is just getting her yearly CERN eye exam? You tell us!
This week’s prize is the ever poular Teensy 3.1 from The Hackaday Store. 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 theoriginal image discussion page.
Good Luck!
As you can plainly see because of the black backdrop, there is an eyelash on this lense.
And fat-finger strikes again. “lense”
No, Mabel, that eyelash is on your glasses!
Don’t make me hit you with my pimp stick!
What exactly is flammable in the dust from blackboards? My chemistry knowledge might be a little rusty, but you would need to work pretty hard to ignite chalk.
Selfie-stick? We invented the damn selfie-stick!
lol. Wrong reply button.
But just about anything is combustible with enough energy and that is made easier when the particles are tiny and dry.
“Wait, what do the instructions say? Double lines for pregnant or…is that a single line? Oh my god, I think that’s another line.”
“Well Joyce, the budget cuts sure did shrink the prizes in our Skill Crane ™ prototype, what do you think? Did I even pick anything up?
Christie and Agatha were determined to find out if the newly installed mirror in the CERN Women’s Locker Room was actually a one way window in the CERN Men’s Locker Room.
And their biological research is looking for abnormally small….. resistors….. and grab by remote robot arm?
I’m not really sleeping, I’m connecting to astral realm beings in order to get guidance on how to open a portal big enough so they can get through. We have until 2017 but we keep failing because we’re getting pimp slapped by Mother Earth.
To make the captive grad students work faster doctors Betty and Susie showed them the anal probe.
I don’t care what it looks like. We could NEVER have actually captured a Higgs Boson in that thing.
Selfie-stick? We invented the damn selfie-stick!
I’m glad that I was mentioned again, but I didn’t post that comment. [ras B] did. I don’t want credit for someone else work.
Damn! I guess you can’t roast marshmallows in the particle besm.
When one needs a lens this large to hide their porn at work…
Great captions folks – but don’t forget that you have to post them for to the Contest log or they don’t count!
https://hackaday.io/contest/4200-caption-cern-contest/log/19969-caption-cern-contest-week-21
https://hackaday.io/contest/4200-caption-cern-contest/log/19966-caption-cern-contest-week-20-winner Please read comment.
Heather and john had to make sure their new 4k TV was truly 4k.
Before the days of facebook Cern created this ingenious device “The Analogue Poke Stick”