Watch protons dry with Large Hadron Collider official webcams

They're just warming up the dipole magnets, and the first major experiment (bunching thousands of protons and making them headbutt) is about to begin: be sure to watch it at the LHC's official webcams.

Chances are it's just going to be like any other webcam, of course, and you'll just stare at it for 20 seconds, then get bored and go somewhere else.

Webcams

[#1 posted by Schizmo , September 12, 2008 5:41 AM]

Hahaha, nice one. Almost fooled me.

[#2 posted by ThinkandDrive , September 12, 2008 6:07 AM]

LHC: Iz in yur Swizzerland, eatin' yer planut core.

[#3 posted by Enochrewt , September 12, 2008 7:42 AM]

Ok, that's funny. I freaked out when the red lights came on.

[#4 posted by Anonymous , September 12, 2008 8:03 AM]

Wow, that's funny!

Then I learned that a 16 year old girl in india committed suicide from fear - that dropped th4e amusement level pronto!

But it's still a work of staggering genius!

[#5 posted by belgium , September 12, 2008 8:13 AM]

Well played Mr Beschizza.

I offer in return:

http://images.apegaming.net/image_warehouse/Jm8bMjHq.png

[#6 posted by Jake0748 , September 12, 2008 8:41 AM]

Very cute. After reading comment #1, I was afraid it was going to be a Rickroll. (This was less scary).

[#7 posted by arkizzle , September 12, 2008 9:17 AM]

Eno, exactly!

[#8 posted by liveMike , September 12, 2008 11:41 AM]

Sweet.

My coworker is still recovering. I sent him an IM:

"Hey, man, they're about to start the first LHC test, check it out:"

Epic.

[#9 posted by Nick Taylor , September 12, 2008 1:36 PM]

Heh, I scared the hell out of my roommate with that.

Priceless reaction.

[#10 posted by mabwiddershins , September 13, 2008 3:44 PM]

Perfect.