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Large Hadron Collider - powered by Linux

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The most powerful physics projects in the history of known universe - The $10 Billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC)- shot its first light speed beam this morning around its 27 km circuit. Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world's astrophysicists it also takes another key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux.

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gus3 ·
I've had a hand in bringing about the cold death of the universe, something I never could have done if I ran Windows Vista.

Curse you, Linus Torvalds!
tuxchick ·
You better curse RMS too, and Kernighan and Ritchie, and Ada Byron, and Archimedes, and Galileo, and Newton, and Fran Drescher. Because the big secret of particle accelerators is they don't spend millions of dollars on space-age gear- they just build these giant soundproof tunnels and play Fran Drescher's voice very loudly. Those poor little atoms don't have a chance- poof! splitsville. They tested Roseanne's voice too, but that gave them nervous breakdowns.
gus3 ·
Oh, those poor atoms!

They need to listen to some Morgan Freeman:

http://xkcd.com/462/

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