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By Hamish Johnston
If you need cheering up on a dreary Monday, this cartoon has been making the rounds on the blogs…
Coming to an Ikea near you, it’s the HÄDRÖNN CJÖLIDDER.
No, it’s not a hair metal band from the 80s, it’s a flat pack version of the Large Hadron Collider.
The cartoon is in the form of assembly instructions from the Swedish giant and includes the pitfalls of poor assembly (involving a black hole) and the reward for getting it right.
The panel on the right deals with the injection of protons!
You can see the entire cartoon here.
I just bought a flat pack LHC. The cooling mechanism was missing though. I guess I’ll just have to cover it with ice cubes and blow hard enough!
There was an episode of Futurama a while back where Professor Farnsworth bought a super collider from IKEA. It had similar instructions.
LOL, I’m laughing my head off at the tick and cross box. That’s cruel.