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« Reply #140 on: September 21, 2008, 03:22:27 AM » |
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The $10 billion particle collider Good god.  |
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« Reply #141 on: September 21, 2008, 03:24:47 AM » |
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Hence the poor Africans.
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« Reply #142 on: September 21, 2008, 06:30:44 AM » |
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Hence the poor Africans.
Indeed. Few people know that the only way to find $10 billion of funding was to steal it directly from Poor Africans. |
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« Reply #143 on: September 21, 2008, 06:36:10 AM » |
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Funniest thing about this is that the actual fixing takes a couple of days at most. No, but they need a month to warm it up from absolute zero, then some poor sod crawls down there and fixes the thing, then they cool it back down (another month at least). Somehow I find this quite amusing. |
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« Reply #144 on: September 21, 2008, 06:39:45 AM » |
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Yeah, they're working at (near) absolute zero to get this think working. Kind of sucks that it all ground to a halt from one malfunction. I can see this project just being a massive sink on resources as one mechanical after another plagues the machine. It just seems like something too complicated too work right the first time.
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« Reply #145 on: September 21, 2008, 09:21:49 AM » |
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There is no malfunction.
In the Bible it says that Judgment Day will come when nobody is expecting it (or so says Cracked.com, which I naturally trust more than the actual Bible), so naturally they figured they couldn't end the world with the LHC as intended when everybody knows about it.
If however they tell us there will be a two months delay, everybody will expect judgment day to happen two months later and not on the original date anymore.
We're all fucking doomed.
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« Reply #146 on: September 24, 2008, 08:31:05 AM » |
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Something more relevant: If the breakthrough is that the Higgs theory is bullshit, science is bullshit :D
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« Reply #147 on: September 24, 2008, 12:01:05 PM » |
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This was obviously Gods last attempt to keep us from mass suicide by digital black hole dragons. |
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« Reply #148 on: September 24, 2008, 02:47:56 PM » |
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Something more relevant: If the breakthrough is that the Higgs theory is bullshit, science is bullshit :D
Pah. Mathematics for one will not be swayed by some puny ions on a roller-coaster! |
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« Reply #149 on: September 24, 2008, 02:59:03 PM » |
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Indeed.
It should also be noted that parts of the quantum/string science currently is based on the 'it makes for pretty math'-proof, where something's likeliness to be true is based on how sexy it looks when described mathematically. What we're all hoping on is to get additional proof for the omnipotence of sexy math.
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« Reply #150 on: September 24, 2008, 03:50:30 PM » |
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What we're all hoping on is to get additional proof for the omnipotence of sexy math.
I know I am! |
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« Reply #151 on: September 24, 2008, 03:55:01 PM » |
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What we're all hoping on is to get additional proof for the omnipotence of sexy math.
I know I am!  Oooh, man. I could stare at that all day.  |
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« Reply #152 on: September 30, 2008, 10:59:57 PM » |
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What we're all hoping on is to get additional proof for the omnipotence of sexy math.
I know I am! Oooh, man. I could stare at that all day. .......Is that a..... HAND WRITTEN M.... among other, PRINTED characters? What kind of place is this? Do you guys actually find that monstrosity sexy? Is this a forum of lechers? Remove that vile filth, and wash your hands, our good Lord is watching. |
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« Reply #153 on: September 30, 2008, 11:13:08 PM » |
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What we're all hoping on is to get additional proof for the omnipotence of sexy math.
I know I am! Oooh, man. I could stare at that all day. that is one hell of a convoluted m. |
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« Reply #154 on: September 30, 2008, 11:54:21 PM » |
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it's a diagram of a rollercoaster. see the loop goes into the straightaway, then over three rapid but steep bump-hills, then into a sharp curve and finally...I dunno what the hell that last one is, but it sure looks fun!
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« Reply #155 on: October 01, 2008, 12:57:41 AM » |
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the last one is DEATH.
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« Reply #156 on: October 01, 2008, 02:26:21 AM » |
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« Reply #157 on: October 01, 2008, 06:25:02 AM » |
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 Secksi math? |
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« Reply #158 on: October 01, 2008, 10:46:26 AM » |
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This thread had a point when it created, and I would rather it had the same point now. Let us halt the off-topic banter until news is again posted about the titular LHC in question.
hehe. I love saying "titular". Funny word.
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« Reply #159 on: October 01, 2008, 10:48:29 AM » |
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You know, I have no idea about the thing's condition. They repaired it yet?
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