The people of the world, specifically Europe, have been given 6 more months to live. The Large Hadron Collider underneath Switzerland and France has been shut down until early spring 2009. This news comes soon after the announcement that a transformer had malfunctioned and wasn’t cooling the internal temperature of the collider to it’s absolute zero freezing point. The transformer had been malfunctioning for a week before it was reported which assures me that the scientists working at the facility are keeping everything on track.

Then a new problem occured. This new problem was caused “after an electrical glitch sparked a large helium leak inside the machine’s tunnels.” Now, I wonder if this one was reported after people walking the tunnels began to sound like munchkins, or if they were a little bit more proactive about it than they were with the transformer.

While the repairs might only take a few months to fix the Officials with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have decided to save costs during the winter months and wait until next spring to fire up the collider. So, everyone can return to giving their full freak out attention to the American financial crisis.


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