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Captain Tarquinn had this to say about John Romero:
Also, 'Large Hardon Collider' is a spiffy title for a porn-movie.
Hardons are all I can think of when it comes to advancing science.
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Anklebiter, again. had this to say about Duck Tales:
Hardons are all I can think of
Quoting this.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Noxhil booooze lime pole over bench lick:
I think I remember a physicist calculating the possibility of the world being destroyed each time they use the LHC and it was like 10^-40. You know your work is awesome when someone calculates the chance of it destroying the world.
The odds of the LHC destroying the world are a great deal less than the odds that the laws of physics upon which the existence of the world relies simply quitting on their own.
This is a pretty OK article on the topic.
The people saying the LHC is dangerous are either blind alarmists, or harboring some ulterior motive.
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The even more ambitious Very Large Hadron Collider would occupy a tunnel a hundred and forty miles in circumference.
Greenlit fucked around with this message on 07-05-2008 at 01:47 AM.
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Maradon! had this to say about dark elf butts:
The odds of the LHC destroying the world are a great deal less than the odds that the laws of physics upon which the existence of the world relies simply quitting on their own.This is a pretty OK article on the topic.
The people saying the LHC is dangerous are either blind alarmists, or harboring some ulterior motive.
Yeah I don't remember the exact number. I'm taking Quantum Mechanics in the fall so obviously this is of great interest to me. Here's to hoping they find Higgs Boson.
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x--NaimahO-('-'Q) :
Reading that article and realizing that we are, as a society, quickly getting to a point where we don't care about the science if it isn't going to make our life better tomorrow somehow is really kind of depressing. It's a little too much like the premise of the 'Foundation' series for my tastes.
A society where people don't care about science that will never directly benefit them is almost as scary a thought as a society whose members draw broad and sweeping conclusions based on incomplete second hand accounts, hearsay, and preconceived notions.
You'll have a hard time convincing the laborer that he should be concerned with what Harold Bloom has to say about Shakespeare, or whether the Higgs Boson exists regardless of whether it interests him. It's not because people are getting lazy and sluggish, it's just the way people have always been.
[edit: ambiguous apostrophe.] Vorbis fucked around with this message on 07-05-2008 at 03:19 PM.
Abandoning sciences, as we did with the SCSC, because there is nothing right around the corner is stupid. I'm not one for public works, but if there is somewhere that government hsould be spending money, it is in these projects where there is no direct gain, but virtually limitless potential.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Naimah who doth quote:
Sending men to the moon had no direct value to the vast majority of mankind, but it resulted in virtually endless advancements in the way we live our lives. The theory of relativity mattered to absolutly no one, but theorectical physicsts but it is what GPS and several other communication technologies are based on.Abandoning sciences, as we did with the SCSC, because there is nothing right around the corner is stupid. I'm not one for public works, but if there is somewhere that government hsould be spending money, it is in these projects where there is no direct gain, but virtually limitless potential.
You're making the false assumption that these things aren't happening on their own anymore.
Universities, independent research laboratories, and especially corporations continue to fund the high sciences (and art, and music) to this day. Where do you think the LHC came from? Why do you think we continue to fund NASA? SETI?
That was kinda the point of my comment - your fears are unfounded, and as the human condition advances and we become more productive overall, the amount of money devoted to these unprovable pursuits will only increase. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 07-05-2008 at 04:35 PM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
