CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

(web.cern.ch)

115 points | by EbNar 5 hours ago

6 comments

  • tempodox 2 hours ago
    I love that CERN has such a strong bond with their animals. They are even monitoring the quantum entanglements of their sheep: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-scientists-find-eviden...
    • perihelions 2 hours ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 ("CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)"; April 1, 2025)
    • lokimedes 1 hour ago
      And yet, not everything is so pretty at CERN.

      Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.

  • spiritplumber 2 hours ago
    I miss the internet when it was like this.
    • edent 23 minutes ago
      It is still like this. You just have to drag yourself away from the big sites and you will find all manner of weirdness.
  • 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 27 minutes ago
    Not sure the Panicking pick depicts panicking though
  • EbNar 5 hours ago
    The CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice is a non-profit organization maintained by CERN staff during their leisure time...
    • MultifokalHirn 5 hours ago
      Reminds me of the fact that what to past or future civilisations perhaps looks dystopian or primitive, might just be jokes and a good time
      • Mistletoe 2 hours ago
        “The scientists at the facility are believed to have worshipped or made sacrifices of their computer mice, due to their primitive minds’ beliefs that it would affect the outcome of their experiments.”
  • witnessme 1 hour ago
    Oh CERN folks, you beautiful people
  • junaru 2 hours ago
    The site is so simple yet has so much soul - a part of internet lost.
    • Levitating 50 minutes ago
      not lost is it? this site is still up

      I think things like these have just become harder to find. There are some search engines which try to bring the "old" internet back to life like Marginalia Search.