There's a particle accelerator in the Louvre's basement

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/aglae.html

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Can it bake the perfect Madeleine cookie? Asking for a friend…

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So it’s not just the one at CERN that could have caused this crazy-ass timeline we’re currently stuck in?

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I can’t seem to recall…

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“and a photo of the “weird sculpture the AGLAE engineers made out of spare accelerator parts.””

TOURIST: It’s a still for making moonshine, isn’t it.

AGLAE ENGINEERS:. . . .absolument pas.

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Well, they do come in handy, but who has the space?

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Well, there’s the plot start to next summer’s blockbuster…

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There’s a particle accelerator in the Louvre’s basement that they shoot at exhibits!!

Fzap!
“Oui, c’est authentique!”

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It’s for generating the antimatter required to scatter the Freemason’s scanning beams and to maintain the secrecy of the Templar vault. And it’s all secretly focused by those glass pyramids.

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Well, of course there is! Have you never accidentally read a Dan Brown novel? There is certainly a Secret Knights Templar Chapel down there too.

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@euansmith

You guys just wrote a better plot than Assassins Creed 3 had…

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As long as Nic Cage is involved, I’m in.

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Life-Got-Dark

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Every time I hear about that basement, it sounds like more of a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Warehouse 13

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Well duh! Why do you think they put a freakin’ pyramid on top of it?!

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Meilleurs. Hommes…

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Jeeze, I thought everyone knew about this. Hell, Kodak even had its own nuclear reactor.

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Honey, you have no idea.

We do that here in the South. We just throw the particles at each other. That’s acceleration, right?