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The Daily Telegraph last Friday showed particle boffins the potentially disastrous effects of meddling with things you don't fully understand - in this case just what "LHC" stands for: Large Hardon Collider breaks energy record, says Telegraph This being the interwebs, the paper was able to move with almost light speed to …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Staying power

    "breaks energy record"

    The headline was probably a deliberate attempt at a joke...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    I need specifics...

    Exactly how large are we talking here?

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  3. nickrw

    Just for a second there...

    ... I thought it was Friday

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  4. Stone Fox
    Coffee/keyboard

    didn't spot it till I'd just answered the phone.

    I need a new keyboard, and to call them back.

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  5. Abremms
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    ahaha

    that one never gets old. cheers!

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  6. gollux
    Coat

    Welcome to the duel...

    mine's bigger than yours, whack, whack, zing! First blood wins...

    Wait, that's a sword duel, bye.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    No joke!

    "Large Hardon Collider"? I think I dated her. What a pain. Talk about the energy needed to stop an aircraft carrier... I know what that poor dump core endures.

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  8. Fluffykins Silver badge

    I hope the editor

    Gave the hapless journo a good stiff talking to

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    1. Martyn Welch
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      Um...

      Wouldn't it have been part of the editors job to have spotted the mistake before it was published?

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  9. Anonymous John
    Paris Hilton

    Has

    anyone got the dead tree version to check?

    Paris because.....

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  10. John Browne 1
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    @ nickrw - not Friday?

    It was when the Telegraph did it, so no LHC-induced temporal anomaly required.

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  11. Rhod
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    The Indy did it first in 2008

    21st September 2008

    Check out the picture caption:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/big-bang-collider-hit-by-further-delay-937001.html

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  12. A. Coatsworth Silver badge
    Joke

    Where's the IT angle?

    Oh, I see... it was on a web page, also the LHC

    So, where's the Paris angle?

    ... "Large hardon", that should cover it...

    I declare this the most complete article in the history of El Reg

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  13. Ian Rogers
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    Spellchecker

    The Telegraph has "hardon" in it's spellchecker dictionary?...

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  14. Johnny Canuck
    Joke

    Just don't let

    ...the streams cross!

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  15. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Well...

    When my large hardon collided with her, I broke my own personal record for particle streams.

    ...I'll get my coat.

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  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Agenda

    I blame Russell T Davis.

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  17. Anonymous Coward
    Terminator

    Large Hardon Colliding....

    sounds rather painful to me. Unless its some kind of figurative description of the pre-match smack talking you see in pro wrestling.

    Terminator icon, because I always knew that there was something sinister about the LHC. All this mini-black hole stuff was really a cover for the true purpose of the collider--to smack collective mankind in the family jewels!!

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  18. Anonymous Coward
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    Telegraph Poll

    Good job it wasn't the print version: I hate it when the pages get stuck together. That's what happened when I tried to publish my paper on G-String Theory.

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  19. ElReg!comments!Pierre
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    Hardon collision...

    ... is not gay if the balls don't touch

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    1. LaeMing
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      Goodness Gracious!

      Great balls of fire!!

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  20. Paul 4
    Happy

    Too slow

    Already been reported (see my post)

    http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/03/19/lhc_3_point_5_tev/

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  21. Goat Jam
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    Oh, I see what you did there

    "Sub-atomic cock-up" indeed.

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  22. Lars Silver badge
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    Funny

    It reminds me of IDG.SE where every second sentence seems to have been out sourced to who knows where.

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  23. Phil Edwards
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    Title

    Ermmm....so the Torygraph makes a spelling mistake in an article and it's the funniest thing in the whole world?

    I feel obliged to remind all the dedicated sub-ed's at El Reg of the article posted by your good selves just under 2 weeks ago, which referred to a 'bugger overflow vulnerability' - and , yes, I *do* have a screen shot to prove it, although regretably no play-mobil reconstruction of same.

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  24. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    Surely...

    ...this is extreme porn?

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  25. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Juvenile

    But I couldn't Resist.

    (NSFW)

    http://www.roflposters.com/large-hardon-collider-if-the-balls-touch-we-all-die/536179/

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  26. Rockandrollsuicide
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    Surely I can't be the first...

    Just what we need to study the Big Bang with.

    Mines the one with the gentlemen's special interest literature in the pocket.

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  27. Monty Burns

    Childish

    hahaha - I love being childish ....

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  28. Ian McNee
    Boffin

    So size does (anti-)matter?

    One thing is for sure: the Tevatron is now facing stiff competition!

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  29. Ray Simard
    Coffee/keyboard

    No surprise

    What do you expect when you excite atoms?

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  30. David McMahon
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    Black hole

    But will it disappear down a black hole?

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