Hmm, when I did the same thing just now, the top petition was for "Justice for Travon Martin" with 2.3 million signatures, second was "Caylee's Law" with 1.3 megasigantures, and #6 is "Stop Wildlife crime" with almost half-a-million. Either they fixed a bug (I know one of the IT guys there, they try to stay on top of bugs), or perhaps you had some kind of filter in place?

You were making a good point, right up to the part where you turned into a bigoted asshole with that "brown people" remark.

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But the peak current is tens-of-thousands of amps, and the connections are between superconducting cables made of exotic materials, and once the connection is made at room temperature it has to be cooled down by almost 300 degrees (150 times colder than where it started) with all the flexing and stressing that causes, and still can't have more than one or two nano-ohms resistance or the whole experiment blows up. Yes, the electrical connections in the LHC are the equivalent of rocket science.