Check out this google street-view inside the Large Hadron Collider and around CERN

CERN and Google have come up with a street-view of the inside of the Large Hadron Collider and of CERN itself. As fun as a barrel of monkeys (a barrel of monkeys running every which way within the greatest long term tiny-things perceiving experiment in human history). Your self-guided tour of the LHC, from 2013, is either a click away or just a few photons to the left:

www.google.com...

Here's their newest street-view traveling kit:
home.web.cern.ch...

a reply to: Aleister

Check out this weird CERN video, very "occult weird" that came out before it was turned back on.

CERN Dance of Destruction

a reply to: Aleister LOL, they cern(taly) have enough 'Emergency Stop' buttons along the wall LOL!

After the visiting the link I ask myself WHY are there are so many "Emergency Shutdown"-Buttons on the wall. What kind of emergency in CERN could require to shutdown the system immediately, since it is - u know - absolutly harmless and nothing to worry about If nothing to be afraid, why emergency shutdown buttons ?

Can they be in the room when they are colliding? How far away from the holy of holies do they stay to be safe from whiz bang particles?

Whats in that bottle with the radiation sticker on it? Is that the antimatter storage, lol?

The maids get an A for spotlessness.

okay whats this…

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originally posted by: intrptr
okay whats this…

I think those naughty scientists are making moonshine!

a reply to: lionsdomain

...to shut things down in an emergency? For a multitude of reasons, I'd imagine. Stop equipment getting damaged, stop people in the immediate vicinity getting injured, etc.

originally posted by: intrptr
Can they be in the room when they are colliding? How far away from the holy of holies do they stay to be safe from whiz bang particles?

Whats in that bottle with the radiation sticker on it? Is that the antimatter storage, lol?

The maids get an A for spotlessness.

okay whats this…

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Considering it is attached to red pipes, I suspected it might be part of a fire suppression system (red pipes often denote fire sprinkler pipes or fire suppression pipes). With this in mind, I followed the red pipes and found more of these hose stations, one of which was labeled "RIA", which stands for "Réseau Incendie Armée", which is a french term for a fire suppression system...

...So my guess is that it is for fire suppression. Although I'm not sure if they use water of something else that may be less likely to damage equipment when used.

Here is another similar hose reel near to your image, also along the red pipes (although with a black hose; the metallic-colored hose might be coated for some specific reason):

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a reply to: MarsIsRed

Chiuckle. I've seen those in vacuum systems, they are a signal coil to amplify signals, I think… that one looks al lot bigger.

Making subatomic white lightning…

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Oh, thanks, thats probably it.

ETA: Obviously, I'm ignorant when it comes to this thing. Was wondering where they stay when this thing is firing or beaming or colliding…

Thanks

Thought I saw BC29 written by the mad red paint sprayer, it's a piggin' time machine...maybe not. Now counting the cracks in the concre....snnzzzzzzzzzz

originally posted by: intrptr

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That'll be ALICE now we know who the__ ALICE is!

www.google.com...

Hope that link works... There is some writing on the wall and it seems to be (quite certain) partially 'blocked out' .. check it out !


EDIT : Link works.. it's most definitely some written text on the wall that is blocked from view.. I wonder if there are more to 'discover'

originally posted by: intrptr
Can they be in the room when they are colliding? How far away from the holy of holies do they stay to be safe from whiz bang particles?

Whats in that bottle with the radiation sticker on it? Is that the antimatter storage, lol?

The maids get an A for spotlessness.

okay whats this…

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It's an H2O dispenser. Emergency stop buttons are located all along the walls.

originally posted by: smurfy

originally posted by: intrptr

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That'll be ALICE now we know who the__ ALICE is!

Alice?

Thanks everyone for the interesting data and discoveries. I realized I didn't copy any text from[home.web.cern.ch... the second source in the OP, which describes and links to the most recent releases from their image collection]. Here is a paragraph from the page, and if you go there yourself you click on any of the external links in the following paragraph to go to its google street-view.

CERN and Google began collaborating on this project in 2010. The first release of images was in 2013, with Google Street Views of the Large Hadron Collider(link is external) tunnel as well as the underground caverns of the ALICE(link is external), ATLAS(link is external), CMS(link is external) and LHCb(link is external) experiments, accessible through a dedicated CERN part of Google Street View(link is external).

originally posted by: intrptr
Can they be in the room when they are colliding? How far away from the holy of holies do they stay to be safe from whiz bang particles?

Whats in that bottle with the radiation sticker on it? Is that the antimatter storage, lol?

The maids get an A for spotlessness.

okay whats this…

image

If they are they turn into Dr Manhattan from Watchmen.

originally posted by: iDope
Check out this weird CERN video, very "occult weird" that came out before it was turned back on.

I'm not a dance fan, I prefer their zombie movie.

originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: soylent green is people

Oh, thanks, thats probably it.

ETA: Obviously, I'm ignorant when it comes to this thing. Was wondering where they stay when this thing is firing or beaming or colliding…

No, scientists or engineers may not be in the beam pipe area while it is running. This is because of the production of high energy Synchrotron Radiation... As the protons travel in a bent path, being accelerated around the ring, high energy gammas are emitted tangential to the motion. This causes a radiation bake to the systems and also anyone down there. Same goes for the experimental halls. The experimental halls experience a huge radiation dosage due to the nature of the experiment. You collide multi TeV protons, and lots of stuff comes out and passes through the detector. Mostly this is fine except if you stood near the detector you would get multi GeV particles passing through you, which is not so bad depending on the type, but the worse part is the fact that those multi GeV particles activate the surrounding material meaning the equipment itself becomes radioactive.

So each time scientists want to get in and fix thing anything, they are required to wait until most of the shorter lived activation has reduced to a safe level.