Caption this: CERN needs pic tags. Serious answers only, kids

Tuesday 28th October 2014 08:14 GMT Ben Bonsall

The first one looks like solenoid winding.

The second, no idea, but I want one.

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 08:35 GMT jake

"March 1970" looks like ...

... an early version of a wire bonder. Probably silver wire. You can't see the business end, just the feed end. No idea who the dude is.

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1. Tuesday 28th October 2014 12:33 GMT Phil O'Sophical
  
  Re: "March 1970" looks like ...
  
  It's an early misguided attempt to spin a world-wide web.
  
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 08:42 GMT Neil Barnes

May 73

Is on his knees, so either he's sticking something to the floor (a high-tech prayer mat perhaps?) or gravity does stranger things at CERN than we have been led to believe.

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 09:29 GMT xnetman

They paid €4.6 billion to build the Large Hadron Collider, but are too cheap to pay people to archive and identify their photos?

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1. Tuesday 28th October 2014 09:53 GMT Lionel Baden
  
  to the downvoter ? why im happy to take the comment with a pinch of salt. Lighten up ol chap
  
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 09:37 GMT Mystic Megabyte

Sept 65

<german accent>

Only this titanium stein can contain the awesome power of Helium-3 beer!

</german accent>

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 10:34 GMT lidgaca

I don't know what he's doing, but it;s obviously Killroy ...

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 10:43 GMT Anonymous Coward

It's a trap

Most time travellers you meet are a bit OCD, if I, er er they, saw a bunch of photo's they could identify they, would find it near impossible to not correct the captions and by doing so disclose their existance.

Cern nice try.

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1. Tuesday 28th October 2014 11:17 GMT frank ly
  
  Re: It's a trap
  
  Is the OCD a side effect of time travelling or is it one of the reasons that you started doing it? Please send me an email (frank.ly@cerntrap.net) because I'm really interested in this for medical reasons. I've heard that paranoia is another side effect, so don't worry if you experience that.
  
  I'm also wondering how much you know about this:
  
  http://home.web.cern.ch/about/experiments/atrap
  
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  1. Tuesday 28th October 2014 15:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: It's a trap
    
    Ah Frank ly we meet again, btw I have upvoted your next post.
    
    Strange how the little coincidences happen, that thing in your garden, think nothing of it, pure chance.
    
    OCD is indeed important to time travel.
    
    OCD, a fear of being in front of camera's and a strong interest in contraception, the detail is important.
    
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    1. Tuesday 28th October 2014 16:34 GMT Elmer Phud
      
      Re: It's a trap
      
      "Ah Frank ly we meet again, btw I have upvoted your next post."
      
      God -- get a room you two!
      
      Again.
      
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 11:19 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon

My contributions

picture 1 - Trombone re-designed using magnetic couplings

picture 2 - Cooling rod swimming pool opens to public in June

picture 3 - Genetically modified bees construct high quality sail-cloth

picture 4 - 'DJ Boffin' creates retro mixing deck for old-fashioned cylinder music

picture 5 - Prototype brain implant requires miniaturisation effort to become practical for every day use

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1. Friday 31st October 2014 20:00 GMT Stevie
  
  Re: My contributions
  
  You owe me a new monitor and keyboard you stupid sod.
  
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 11:41 GMT kmac499

PIcture 3

Andre Geims Mum decorating his nursery.. The Graphene Meme is planted...

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 12:39 GMT Anonymous Coward

Why only serious contributions?

It would be much more fun (and more popular) if this also gathers some more inspired commentary.

There is power in them memes, you know..

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 13:44 GMT breakfast

Pictorial physics conjecture

I don't know what the object in the last picture is, but I do know how big it is. Surely that should be enough for the quantum physicists at least.

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 13:52 GMT RainbowTrout

Number 3: The birth of Qbert?

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Tuesday 28th October 2014 21:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

ITS LIKE JIM BOWEN WAS THERE...

In 1: Suicide by nailgun.

In 2: Forgot to turn taps off.

In 3: He's totally bored.

In 4: Bloke looking at something.

AND BULLYS SPECIAL PRIZE: 5: A toast rack.

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Thursday 30th October 2014 14:31 GMT RevolutionNeeded

Obviously classified!

First guy is obviously having an inhaler issue, Second is where they keep the 3 eye'd fish out of the Simpsons, Third guy is obviously inventing Blockbusters, Fourth is quite clearly sewing up some sort of quantum entanglement certified lab coat and you just don't want to know what they do with the fifth.

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Monday 16th February 2015 13:29 GMT Katy_B

Pic 1 The "dark matter flask"? This is a wind up right?

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Tuesday 17th February 2015 08:09 GMT Anonymous Coward

September 1965

Dr Nefario with an early prototype d/fart gun...

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Wednesday 18th March 2015 01:15 GMT Martin Budden

Upside down.

Pic 3 is upside down. Seriously. He's kneeling while positioning the honeycomb thing on the floor, not the wall.

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Monday 30th March 2015 06:26 GMT Dick Pountain

Photo #1: "Damn it! This is Pentax fit and I *told* them I have a Nikon-fit mouth"

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Wednesday 8th April 2015 00:27 GMT Clive Harris

January 1970

January 1970 appears to be the commutator of a DC motor/generator device. The wear marks on the commutator segments match with the brushgear on the right. The top looks like part of the armature. I'm not sure about the structure on the left. It seems to have some electrical connections, but can't be another brush, because it extends beyond the commutator and its position doesn't correspond with the wear marks. Possibly some sort of cleaning blade??

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