Day 7 and we’re sad to see Dan leave the competition – but he’s still welcome to join us in more live chats! The next eviction will be at 3pm tomorrow, so make sure you keep voting!
Today’s highlights:
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Even high tech machinery can go wrong. Image by Knotterjan for Wikimedia
We learnt what can go wrong with a particle accelerator:
synjyboy : what faults can go wrong with particle accelerators?
bendrumm : with so MANY bits of equipment, there’s a lot that can go wrong! Example: we had a water leak on one of our big magnet, which leaked on and EVEN BIGGER magnet below and caused it to set on fire :s
garyboorman : Particle accelerators are very complicated – when the beam goes off it’s normal direction it can cause a shower of radiation.
- Some of the benefits of working as an engineer:
fintasy : do you get to travel in your job?
samerkilani : Yes I do travel quite alot for meetings and conferences
bendrumm : yeas, I’ve been lucky – I’ve gone to New York, Spain, France several times and Barbados through a work sports club
04aw01 : do you meet a lot of new people in your job
bendrumm : YES! I reckon I’ve probably met at least 100 people on site through my work (although I do a lot of sports/social stuff…)
samerkilani : CERN has more than 10,000 people coming from all over world. The ATLAS collaboration by itself has people from almost every continent in the world. So yes I meet a lot of people
- And some great questions in ASK too, from work to personal…
How would you explain what an engineer does in a tweet of 140 words?
What is the coolest thing you’ve ever made?