Remember that theory about the Large Hadron Collider
sabotaging itself from the future? The billion-dollar experiment has now been affected by a bird and a baguette:
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
Link here.
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