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> "Explore more than 1 petabyte of LHC data!"

And that's just the online free-for-all version. If you apply for access, you can analyse all of it through the LHC Computing Grid.

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This is awesome. But it is still impractical. The researchers knee deep in this already have to fight for the computing power and data access (and error checking of all of that) for years to get anything meaningful to come out. It's just not as simple as "publish the data". I'm willing to be proved wrong on this, but it's a lot like saying: here's an iOS IDE and a server, recreate Whatsapp. It's impractical for many reasons, but I'll definitely give that with enough resources (money/time/brainpower/data access) it is not impossible.

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