Rusty pipes
Every unused parking lot and road side is a potential scrapyard, and CERN is blessed with a lot of strange junk. Here’s a random example. Any ideas what this was?
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Every unused parking lot and road side is a potential scrapyard, and CERN is blessed with a lot of strange junk. Here’s a random example. Any ideas what this was?
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No smoking
1 March 2010 - 08:00
Tags: CERN Hostel, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smoking
Posted in Marquage | 1 Comment
At the CERN hostel, this sign indicates that you may not smoke cigarettes, cigars or pipes. I guess it’s ok to smoke anything else.
Underground CERN: it’s Half-Life in real-life
26 October 2009 - 08:00
Tags: cables, creepy rooms, pipes, steam, underground
Posted in Infrastructure, Photos | 19 Comments
It’s one of the greatest games of all time. You clamber over pipes and through ducts. Cables of unclear electrical status dangle uncomfortably close to puddles of water. Tunnels lit by rudimentary emergency lighting lead on and on past a hissing steam pipe, then dripping water, then silence, until the darkness slowly reveals [...]
22 January 2010 - 16:19
It looks like a part of some heat exchanger or water boiler.
29 January 2010 - 22:32
Daniel, that is what I was guessing. Sadly, those pipes probably never contained rockets or lasers. Though, the Mythbusters might have some use for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A0sjIh6_YQ