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Mechanical Orifices

Posted by Ross Rosenberg

Photos taken during the construction of the the Large Hadron Collider, located on the border of Switzerland and France. The bowels of the facility are dazzling in their complexity and scale. This wire-rimmed sphincter is the “CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment Tracker Outer Barrel (TOB)”.

Large Hadron Collider nearly ready [The Big Picture]

Categories: Photographs, Science
Posted at 4:49 pm on August 1, 2008
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I can’t help but imagine this as the cross section of some sort of future warp drive. I have an image of opening the door to the engine room in my spaceship, only to see this techno-mandala, each of the concentric circular sections rotating in different directions and at different speeds, and lights glowing and flashing along its length to the center.

Comment by Joe Shadows — August 1, 2008 @ 5:52 pm

It looks like probably the most expensive goatse ever made.

Comment by Mike — August 1, 2008 @ 7:14 pm

Don’t you mean large hardon collider?

Comment by chesh — August 1, 2008 @ 8:35 pm

Ok, so as a resident Floridian I have to say that the picture you have here of this thing looks an awful lot like the shrink ray on the ride at Epcot center for Body Wars.

Check it out, (@ 133) Disney always knows what’s happenin’.

Comment by Euphoria — August 1, 2008 @ 11:48 pm