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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org ("Stephanie 🎀") wrote:

Large Hadron Collider taking the L tonight. That rampdown pattern (black graph) is NOT normal 😬 I’ve only ever seen the magnets do that one other time, and that was ten years ago after a small animal got fried on an 18 kV power line.

Close-up of a beam energy and intensity graph, showing a slow decline followed by a rapid decline in the black graph (which reads as beam energy here, but can also correspond with magnetic field strength and current).