September 19, 2008 (Friday)
- A quench occurred when liquid helium leaked at the Large Hadron Collider. This will further delay experiments until the damage is accessed and vacuum is restored. (BBC)
- The Space Shuttle Endeavour moves to the launch pad as a backup in case the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew needs to be rescued from their higher risk Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. (AP)
- Professor Stephen Hawking unveils the Corpus Clock, a 'terrifying' new way to read the time, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England. (BBC News)
- The first lab grown heart starts to beat. (PopSci)
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“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
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