The Large Hadron Collider is the declamatory and most complex machine in the universe , but it only claim one adventuresome weasel to shut it down in November of last class . The inauspicious gent pass over over a substation fence and was strike by 18,000 volts of electricity . Now , its stuffed stiff is on display at the Rotterdam Natural History Museum .
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The “ Dead Animal Tales ” exhibition focuses on the whim “ that fauna and human life history clash more and more , with dramatic final result for both . ” Kees Moeliker , film director of the museum , tellsThe Guardian . It ’s be of animals that have met their demise in ways that would never happen without the mien of world . accord toThe Guardian :
It joins a hedge sparrow that was shot after it sabotaged a worldly concern record endeavour by knock over 23,000 Antoine Domino ; a hedgehog that got fatally stick in a McDonalds McFlurry tidy sum , and a mudcat that fall victim to a group of men in the Netherlands who developed a custom for drinking immense amounts of beer and swallowing fish from their aquarium . The catfish turned out to be armoured , and on being swallowed raised its spines . The defence did not save the fish , but it put the 28 - year - sometime man who tried to swallow it in intensive care for a week .
The stone marten has been a bit of a holy grail for Moeliker . He first tried to acquirea different weaselthat caused a malfunction at the LHC last April . Unfortunately for him , worker at the European particle physics laboratory had already cast away its remains . When the latest “ Cern weasel ” bit the junk , Moeliker jumped into action .
The museum film director says that he care the poetic thought of a weasel jar with the universe ’s largest automobile and temporarily stop it from doing its line of work of collide the tiniest particle . “ We desire to show that no matter what we do to the environs , to the natural earthly concern , the impact of nature will always be there , ” he aver .
[ The Guardian ]
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