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I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists perf

I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?

loganadams_ 9y ago
Because the summer students thought it would be funny to joke about the insane conspiracy theories regarding CERN
johnhenry 9y ago
Some may be tempted to call fake news, but there was a snopes article about this stating that it was a prank: http://www.snopes.com/human-sacrifice-captured-at-cern/ http://www.snopes.com/human-sacrifice-captured-at-cern/.
lokimedes 9y ago
Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Specially after one of those memorable summer students parties.
- ephimetheus 9y ago
  I was a summer student last year, and from what I've heard it actually wasn't summer students.
  - dukwon 9y ago
    As it happens, it was students, but they weren't enrolled in any sort of CERN student programme.
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Gravityloss 9y ago
It's rational - it's for the greater good.
dukwon 9y ago
> Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that? Because it seemed like a funny idea at the time, they didn't think they would get caught, and they didn't think it would receive as much media attention as it inevitably did. They were laughing right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video from their network suspiciously early.
- WorkLobster 9y ago
  > right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video I've never really got over that blog post[1] a couple of years ago where they smugly described passing on identifying details for an individual that pirated simulation software so they could be slapped with an enormous fine. If this one is also true then CERN IT are beginning to sound awfully eager to go straight for reprisal at the personal level. [1] https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/28/News%20Articles/2030047?ln=en https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/28/News%20Arti...
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I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?

loganadams_ 9y ago

Because the summer students thought it would be funny to joke about the insane conspiracy theories regarding CERN

johnhenry 9y ago

Some may be tempted to call fake news, but there was a snopes article about this stating that it was a prank: http://www.snopes.com/human-sacrifice-captured-at-cern/ http://www.snopes.com/human-sacrifice-captured-at-cern/.

lokimedes 9y ago

Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.

pjmlp 9y ago
Specially after one of those memorable summer students parties.
ephimetheus 9y ago
I was a summer student last year, and from what I've heard it actually wasn't summer students.
- dukwon 9y ago
  As it happens, it was students, but they weren't enrolled in any sort of CERN student programme.
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Gravityloss 9y ago

It's rational - it's for the greater good.

dukwon 9y ago

> Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that? Because it seemed like a funny idea at the time, they didn't think they would get caught, and they didn't think it would receive as much media attention as it inevitably did. They were laughing right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video from their network suspiciously early.

WorkLobster 9y ago
> right up until CERN IT identified two of them as watching the original uploaded video I've never really got over that blog post[1] a couple of years ago where they smugly described passing on identifying details for an individual that pirated simulation software so they could be slapped with an enormous fine. If this one is also true then CERN IT are beginning to sound awfully eager to go straight for reprisal at the personal level. [1] https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/28/News%20Articles/2030047?ln=en https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/28/News%20Arti...

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