A weasel shut down the world's most powerful particle smasher when it wandered onto a 66,000-volt transformer and caused a short circuit, Europe's physics lab CERN said Saturday. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was halted "following technical issues, including a power cut due to the passage of a weasel on a high voltage electrical transformer," CERN spokesman Arnaud Marsollier told AFP.Apparently bunnies are not the only ones with big gnashy teeth.
| Unshelved | by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum |
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Saturday, April 30, 2016
Usually around here, it's squirrels that mess with the electricity
Pop goes the weasel as Hadron Collider shuts down
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