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!
Link -via Gizmodo
Previously: Trouble at the LHC
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.
Link -via Gizmodo
Previously: Trouble at the LHC
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What if all the collider does is make Tom Hanks start doing commedy again (like Big), and stop only doing films he thinks will win him awards?
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Hmmm ... I just don't think Tom Hanks is sexy enough to turn anything on. Especially a large Hard ... oh, wait, that's H-A-D-R ... never mind.
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So... Hanks gets to be there because he filmed a movie based on a book that has CERN in it. Does it matter that the author got MANY, MANY "facts" incorrect about CERN in that book?
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What, Tom Hanks gets to end the world and Johnny Depp doesn't? Where's the fairness in that?
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True internet Primetime Grilling. Interwbebs, you crack me up. *hugs*
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