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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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No smoking
about 6 months ago - 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
about 10 months ago - 20 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 a moist
about 7 months ago
It looks like a part of some heat exchanger or water boiler.
about 7 months ago
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
about 1 month ago
Ack, physicists.
Its a shell and tube heat exchanger: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Shell_and_tube_heat_exchanger