HaydnH Posted August 17, 2013 Posted August 17, 2013 All the nice Swiss roads start about 3 hours to the east. Quote
Vik54 Posted August 17, 2013 Posted August 17, 2013 Got to love the geekage going on here It would be an interesting day out Quote
Adrian@TORQEN Posted August 17, 2013 Author Posted August 17, 2013 All the nice Swiss roads start about 3 hours to the east. Comeeeee on, stick your name down! Quote
HaydnH Posted August 17, 2013 Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) All the nice Swiss roads start about 3 hours to the east. Comeeeee on, stick your name down! I suppose I've got a 2013 Vignette already... not particularly interested in CERN though. I'll see if I can get a few days off and maybe spend the day driving around the Alps while you're being geeks. Edited August 17, 2013 by HaydnH Quote
Mikesding Posted August 17, 2013 Posted August 17, 2013 I could be interested! Will be a maybe at the moment though Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Quote
Stutopia Posted August 19, 2013 Posted August 19, 2013 This all got a little out of hand when I mentioned it at work. The upshot is a few will be going, but flying out, not road tripping. Boring I know, sorry to bail but I'd want a week off to drive there and take in the surrounding mountain roads/alps. A week off isn't happening that particular week. PS - you can rent a 911 at Geneva Airport... Quote
Stutopia Posted August 20, 2013 Posted August 20, 2013 Has anyone seen how hard it is to get the experiment tickets? They were available for all of 4 minutes today. I'd suggest getting your refresh button ready if you are trying. I'm going to see an LHCb Experiment (Point 8), super excited.... Anyone know what that is? Quote
4RE Leather Posted August 20, 2013 Posted August 20, 2013 If Adrian pays the fuel and hotel food and beer I am up for it lol ! Quote
AK350Z Posted August 20, 2013 Posted August 20, 2013 Has anyone seen how hard it is to get the experiment tickets? They were available for all of 4 minutes today. I'd suggest getting your refresh button ready if you are trying. I'm going to see an LHCb Experiment (Point 8), super excited.... Anyone know what that is? It'll be an education then! (its one of the heavy particle experiments) Quote
Stutopia Posted August 20, 2013 Posted August 20, 2013 As long as I see a black hole I'll be happy Looks like some decent bars in Geneva, shame the hotel I'm eyeing is in the red light district... Quote
Stutopia Posted September 24, 2013 Posted September 24, 2013 Flying out tomorrow for a few days touring before the weekend. Getting the world's fastest car, don't know make & model yet, but rental with damage waiver You still driving down Octet? Quote
Stutopia Posted September 30, 2013 Posted September 30, 2013 Just a few snaps from CERN, I'll post some up of the road trip round Switzerland when I get through them. CERN was super geeky but also really cool, the stuff on show was incredible and the sheer coordination to make it all happen every day is astonishing when you look at how many bits and pieces make the whole thing tick over. It was all about getting one of these. Not many get to go underground, even fewer get to go in the tunnel due to the radiation normally present. What's there. Going underground - 100m down The tunnel. More explanation. No idea, cool hardware though. More science. Safety procedures. More beam stuff. Loads of robots. Nothing is wasted. Prototype Zed radiator. Metals you can see through. Tooling around Quote
Stutopia Posted September 30, 2013 Posted September 30, 2013 Few more from the geek fest. If in doubt, cable tie. An actual black hole. Errrr, is it meant to bed red light on whilst were in here? Goodies from NASA. Something gold. Scientists like cars too. The whole place runs off one mac mini since they got rid of the 20,000 PCs First ever walkman prototype tape. Old skool tech. More apple goodies. One of the many corridors in the data centre, with links to others around the globe. Just because you understand physics doesn't mean you can brew up. Quote
wmr1980 Posted October 1, 2013 Posted October 1, 2013 Cool pics - wish I could have gone - I will do one day, it's right up my street! Love this stuff. Quote
Stutopia Posted October 1, 2013 Posted October 1, 2013 Cool pics - wish I could have gone - I will do one day, it's right up my street! Love this stuff. If you get a chance, jump on it. Hugely interesting even for an amateur like me. Also Switzerland has the best virtually empty roads! 1 Quote
AK350Z Posted October 1, 2013 Posted October 1, 2013 Great pics Stu, I'd love to go back again on the next shutdown. Quote
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