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Ottomans not included

Diagonalize — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:27:27 -0800

For those of you who prefer your science isolated with a side of moody furniture, I give you Lonely Chairs at CERN.

By: orme

orme — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:51:30 -0800

You know, not every chair wants to be around other chairs all of the time. Introverted chairs are perfectly happy sitting in a corner of a basement where it's nice and quiet.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:52:35 -0800

I think these chairs are guessers.

By: gerstle

gerstle — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:42:47 -0800

I have absolutely no idea why I loved this, but I did, so thanks for posting.

By: sebastienbailard

sebastienbailard — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:44:57 -0800

We need mefi's own physicsmatt to come in and explain this.

By: tula

tula — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:49:01 -0800

All chairs' miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - chaise pascal

By: uosuaq

uosuaq — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:51:15 -0800

I assume the site's author just snapped these photos while searching for the Higgs Futon.

By: sio42

sio42 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:19:22 -0800

Is it always 1974 at cern?

By: randomkeystrike

randomkeystrike — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:49:53 -0800

"What would chairs look like if our knees bent the other way?" - Steven Wright which is what I always think when I see those chairs like the one between the data center rows...

By: QueerAngel28

QueerAngel28 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:50:29 -0800

Yes it is always 1974 there. I realized that the random chairs are next to the "Radiation: Limited Stay" signs. This makes sense. You've overstayed your welcome. When the Radiation Vapors hit you, and you start to feel faint, you need that random chair, aka: fainting couch. "Oh my the vapors got me!"

By: dios

dios — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:59:33 -0800

This is exactly what I wanted it to be after the description.

By: uosuaq

uosuaq — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:58:48 -0800

Is there a more welcoming sight next to a "Radiation: Limited Stay" sign than a 30-year-old chair?

By: Harald74

Harald74 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:32:06 -0800

This reminded me of the Portal / Half-Life games. In Portal, you can glimpse chairs behind the observation windows in the test chambers. The glass is frosted, but you can see that the chairs are empty, some apparently having been tossed aside in a hurry. I Half-Life 2, at one point you pass a pier with an empty wheelchair on the end. Adds a little extra bleakness to an already bleak setting.

By: rory

rory — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 02:43:58 -0800

And so the World Wide Web comes full circle.

By: hawthorne

hawthorne — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:29:50 -0800

This is what I imagine the first 35 minutes of a Blake's 7 film will look like.

By: zinon

zinon — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:23:03 -0800

Why so many s-type chairs? They really are the worst type of chair.

By: seyirci

seyirci — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:52:56 -0800

Am I the only one to have Portal 2 flashbacks? (On review: Nope.)

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:09:49 -0800

Some of those portal/half-life looking scenes should be used for a postapocalyptic sequel to the movie filmed on-site at the LHC a while back, Decay

By: jrochest

jrochest — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:48:03 -0800

Strikingly reminiscent of The Garden Chair of Solitude. Warning, FB link.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:00:30 -0800

Speaking of Portal: This Portal 2 Time Travel Mod Lets Chell Solve Puzzles With Her Past Self