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Large Hadron Collider Begins Testing | Wired Science from Wired.com

CERN will fire the first test beam through one of the particle accelerator’s sectors.

“It’s, ‘Let’s see what happens,’ ” Judy Jackson, head of the Office Communications at Fermilab, told Popular Mechanics. “It’s a very complex machine. This is a step towards getting ready.”

Then, on September 10th, a full-power beam will travel through the accelerator’s entire 17 miles of tunnels, reaching up to 99.99 percent of the speed of light. And finally, assuming all goes well, the first real science experiments will begin some time in October.

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We woke this morning to see one of the ribbon snakes, with the other ribbon snake halfway down its throat. Cannibalism is highly frowned upon by the administration of the Ark, and I messed with them enough to prove my point. After it was spit out, the other snake was alive, with some damaged scales, but I am concerned about their future.

Nothing I can find says that ribbon snakes would do this, although I did find information that garter snakes will sometimes do this when hungry. We have a pool of fish for them, so it shouldn’t be this. I think perhaps one of them is simply a schizophrenic and the voices are telling him to eat the other….eat him….

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