Posted by Browser on November 7, 2009, 15:35:38
It's one of the most expensive and technologically-complex machines in the world, but that didn't prevent the Large Hadron Collider from coming a cropper thanks to our feathered friends.
The £4.4 billion 'God Machine' overheated after a passing bird dropped a piece of bread into a high voltage installation which was powering a cooling unit.
Scientists looking into a failure of the cryogenic cooling plant found a piece of baguette had caused the malfunction.
Sources: Daily Mail, Telegraph, Guardian etc
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