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tommyrot - Feb 18, 2009 9:21:00 am PST #6860 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Not an Onion headline: Tom Hanks to Turn On Large Hadron Collider

The CERN Large Hadron Collider had to be taken out of commission last September for retooling after helium leaked out and caused £20 million in damage. Who gets to turn on the button to start it up when repairs are finished? Movie star Tom Hanks!

Hanks was approached about the move while filming his latest film Angels and Demons in which he plays a Harvard University academic investigating a plot to annihilate the Vatican with 0.25 grams of antimatter stolen from Cern.

Steve Myers, Cern’s director of accelerators and technology, told Nature News that he gave the actor a tour of the laboratory on February 13 and asked him if he would return for the switch-on, to which the actor agreed.

Cern’s head of communications, James Gillies, confirmed that the facility would be delighted to have Hanks there to restart the collider, which organisers hope will take place in June.

"...annihilate the Vatican with 0.25 grams of antimatter stolen from Cern"? Is that what MiracleMan has been up to?

Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2009 9:25:19 am PST #6861 of 30000

brillig

Ahahaha! Rolcats!

It's the most wonderful thing I've seen all week.

Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 18, 2009 9:43:35 am PST #6862 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I love the supposition that CERN has huge amounts of antimatter lying around in easily transportable containers just waiting to be stolen.Hell, the containers they used for transporting antimatter on Star Trek required two people to move them!

tommyrot - Feb 18, 2009 9:45:32 am PST #6863 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

You just go down to your local Home Depot and ask for an antimatter bottle.

Ailleann - Feb 18, 2009 9:51:10 am PST #6864 of 30000

vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I read Angels and Demons, and stealing it was a big complicated thing. And IIRC only a small amount was stolen.

signed, don't know why I remember this

Fred Pete - Feb 18, 2009 9:55:32 am PST #6865 of 30000

Ann, that's a ferret.

Ahahaha! Rolcats!

snicker* *snicker*

tommyrot - Feb 18, 2009 9:56:13 am PST #6866 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

stealing it was a big complicated thing.

Yeah, I suppose it would be. Of all the ways to destroy the Vatican, stealing antimatter to blow it up would be about the most complicated....

Megmac - Feb 18, 2009 9:58:19 am PST #6867 of 30000

“It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.”

How would the 0.25 grams of antimatter only annihilate the Vatican and nowhere else?

Jessica - Feb 18, 2009 10:02:36 am PST #6868 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Vatican is comprised of exactly 0.25 grams of matter?

tommyrot - Feb 18, 2009 10:07:43 am PST #6869 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yes! The rest of it is just a hologram. In the movie, Tom Hanks will use string theory to prove this.

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