Several other entries to the competition proved popular. Colliderscope garnered many votes, along with Black Mesa, the name of an ill-fated research facility in the game franchise Half-Life.
To reflect the endless quest to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything, some suggested Cern should name the experiment after the computer designed to do just that in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought.
Other favourites were:The Particrasher, E=M25, The Big Banger and Big Bang Two Point Oh, Collider-torus Rex, The Boffin's Bagel and Doughnut of Discovery.
Telegraph readers also rose to the challenge with several hundred suggestions. They came up with:
Ovid's Phaeton
The Magic Roundabout
The Genesis Engine
E42 - E for Energy, 42, from The Hitchhikers Guide
Adam Smasher
Hawkinator after Stephen Hawking
Puff The Magic Hadron
Bosonator
BOB - Biggest Of Bangs
Mr Twirly Beams
The One Ring
Stargate
Collider-torus Rex is awesome.
Gordon Freeman and the G-Man worked on Halo.
...what's next? Halo accidentally pulls out a Cyberdemon?
Oh, Crap...XDD
Ah well, life was fun - may as well wait and see when it all goes to hell! 8D
I, for one, am willing to submit to our Covenant overlords as they come to find out the secrets of the Halo.
You have to admit, it's cool that they wanted to get away from the acronym, and cooler that they let the public make the choice. I like the way they put the reason why they wanted to choose a "real" name as opposed to the acronym.
Bring on the Covenant!
*Readies Battle Rifle*
