Amusing mis-speak of the morning

Unknown newscaster on WTOP on a bit about the Large Hadron Collider startup this morning (which, by the way, we appear to have lived through):

"...will direct two protein beams..."

Humanity should be proud that we can investigate the boundaries of subatomic physics with hypersonic salami.

Am I being rhetorical?

Does the phrase "situational outrage" mean anything to anyone?