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Los Alamos National Laboratory – one of the big nuke labs run by the US Department of Energy and a big supercomputing center – has been shut down by the Las Conchas fire that is burning on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The lab – which is 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe and which is home to the "Roadrunner" hybrid …

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  1. Ryan 7

    "The lab has...

    ... an operating budget of $2bn and occupies 36 square miles and has over 8 million square feet of facilities in over 2,000 different structures."

    So... it's Black Mesa, then?

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  2. krautsalat
    Mushroom

    Am I the only one ...

    ... who read "wildfire" and "laboratory" and immediately thought of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN?

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    1. Simon Neill
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      I can guarantee

      that you are not. First thought was andromeda strain second was computer virus from 2005.

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  3. Marvin the Martian
    Pint

    Grad students now working

    for roasted peanuts.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Mushroom

      They always did

      In any case, neither fires, nor cigarettes are the usual cause of a "human fault" fire. The most common cause in "lots of sunshine" places is actually broken glass.

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