Jessie L. '07 | April 06, 2006
"MIT hacks Caltech"
Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to hack MIT during CPW (Warning: Very biased site *grin*).
This CPW, MIT decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They fire it at important events.
Guess where the cannon is as I type this?
(All photos are credit of Jo Tong '08)
That's outside MIT's Green Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon.
As you can see, Howe & Ser Moving Co. (read the plaque in the picture) has their own website. :)
In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of 2006 Brass Rat:
Another view of the Brass Rat:
I heard someone ask earlier today, "How many points do you think we get on caltechvsmit.com for this?"
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Heh, I wondered the same thing for self. It looks like "at least 10" as of right now.
Posted by: Sam on April 6, 2006 02:54 PM
MIT should be awarded whatever the maximum allowable points are. It will be a very long time before this one is outdone. Brilliant.
Posted by: Tom on April 6, 2006 10:08 PM
It's up to fourteen points. Woot!
Posted by: Drew on April 10, 2006 07:55 PM
I cant wait to see the cannon when I visit MIT this week. Very impressive.
Katy
p.s. I'm from California!
Posted by: Katy on April 10, 2006 09:38 PM
That cannon is now long gone...
Posted by: Monica on April 11, 2006 02:05 AM
The hack was creative only because the pranksters managed to get the cannon off Caltach campus with some cleaver social engineering, and transport it 3000 miles. The act of stealing the cannon in/of itself is not very original, especially since Harvey Mudd college did it years sgo.
Posted by: Anonymous on April 12, 2006 05:40 PM
Brilliant! I can't believe they were able to bring the cannon 3000 miles across the country. Those MIT students must be very clever.
Posted by: Alison on April 17, 2006 04:33 PM
