The Large Hadron Collider, at CERN. – CERN
    • 07/03/2016 at 17:36
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” I knew nothing about this theory, I discovered in reading the comments. I did a Google search for my picture and I saw that exploitation! “One week after posting his photograph on his Facebook page, the amateur photographer Joëlle Rodrigue, contacted by 20 Minutes still can not believe it. In posts on the image returns regularly to the same question: “The cloud he is above the
 CERN? “.

If the European Organization for Nuclear Research is so often cited is that it stirred since the publication of the photograph Joëlle Rodrigue
 one of the most outlandish theories complotistes. Spotted by The Sun
 Sunday Express in the UK and Le Point in France, a video viewed over 180,000 times
 Youtube uses the cloud cliche zebra lightning to assert that CERN is conducting experiments to “disrupt weather patterns” and open “portals”

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To support his point, the narrator cites in turn the AWAKE program launched in 2013 by the scientific organization on particle acceleration and “recent climate weather worldwide.” But mostly, he says the cloud is right smack above the premises of CERN and its Hadron Collider

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Joëlle Rodrigue cautions: “The picture has been taken on June 24 between midnight and 1am but I does not endorse in any way the use that was made or this wacky theory! What we see in the cloud is the city of Geneva and its lake. CERN is in this direction, which fueled the story. ” Impossible however to assert, as did the complotiste collective, it is exactly above the premises of the particle accelerator. This is not the first time that the European Organisation for Nuclear Research feeds of crazy theories. Last December,
 several complotistes blogs had accused CERN to “play with the sky” by creating “vortex” uncontrollable

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