notmtwain: epithet

I'm glad he didn't say "epitaph".

The large Hadron rap is very informative, even though it oozes with nerdiness

it will rock you in the head (new window)

Tesseractor: The large Hadron rap is very informative, even though it oozes with nerdiness

Ah, darn it.

*looks up the word stultify*


Ok, I'm all for it now!

"Another discovery that we might make is superpartners, partners for all the particles we know ... they could make up the mysterious dark matter that holds galaxies together"



Agree

He also thinks we're destroying our planet and are doomed unless we colonise the solar system. Wtf does he know?

Considering the tens of billions of dollars that are pissed down the drain on foreign aid EVERY YEAR, which in the vast majority of cases does absolutely nothing for long term development (see Sub Saharan Africa), I consider the Space Program and the LHC bargains. In fact, we should be spending a couple hundred billion a year on stuff like this not mere 10,20 or 30 billion.

Facetious_Speciest: He also thinks we're destroying our planet and are doomed unless we colonise the solar system. Wtf does he know?

A lot more than you.

Facetious_Speciest: He also thinks we're destroying our planet and are doomed unless we colonise the solar system. Wtf does he know?

So, if you're so smart, what happens when we run out of raw materials on Earth? I mean, if we switch to nuclear power after the oil becomes too short in supply, where do we go for more Uranium when that starts running short too? Answer: Ceres.

Approves

/hotlinkin' like a mothafarkin' gangsta

I'm gonna say the world will NOT end.

If it does, no one will be around to say 'you were wrong'.
If it doesn't, I will look smarter than those that said it would.

It's win win.

notmtwain: It's his version of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

Are you telling me Stephen Hawking just compared the LHC to a ZJ?

It's all fun and games until somebody's country gets sucked into a black hole...

Facetious_Speciest: He also thinks we're destroying our planet and are doomed unless we colonise the solar system. Wtf does he know?

How to corner a wheelchair at high speeds?

Didn't Hawking say almost exactly the same thing about the the colonization of other planets a couple years ago? Maybe it's just me, but he seems to be increasingly eccentric as he ages.

Hadron Collider

I hated him in Catcher in the Rye.

zvoidx: It's all fun and games until somebody's country gets sucked into a black hole...

A perfect argument for outsourcing...

You know what is going to happen, they are going to fire that thing up, do the test, and it will just so happen Vulcans will be scanning our solar system and hear the bang, come to investigate, and BLUE BOOBIES FOR ALL!!!

If you're looking for trouble you've found it.

engrishmajor: Didn't Hawking say almost exactly the same thing about the the colonization of other planets a couple years ago? Maybe it's just me, but he seems to be increasingly eccentric as he ages.

Or, it could just be that the world seems to be sucking more...

yeah, swell... where the fark is my gotdamned flying car already???

I can't believe we spent the money on this instead of two more months of Iraq war. What a waste.

RetiredTroll

A lot more than you.

Doubtless. I'd wager he recognises sarcasm, though, so we're both a bit ahead of you.

Clandestine digital operative: notmtwain: It's his version of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

Are you telling me Stephen Hawking just compared the LHC to a ZJ?



Who is Barry Badrinath? Who is Barry Badrinath? Who is Barry Badrinath? Who is Barry Badrinath?

When charged particles of more than 5 TeV pass through a bubble chamber, they leave of trail of candy.

My Baloney Has No First Name: Agree


Am I the only one who thought those two were so totally shagging? I mean, their every interaction had this weird, kind of creepy incest vibe.

Maybe it was just me.

OK, I'm not one of those ZOMGWEREALLGONNADIE freaks or anything; I believe the LHC is safe. But Hawking is vastly overestimating the LHC's importance.

I'm hoping that the LHC will be Sputnik 2. That Joe Schmoe American will jump up off his Barcalounger, put down his Pabst and say "By God, we can't let those Frenchies have better toys than us!" (Joe Schmoe is not good on geography either)

Then we'll see money pouring back into development, take the universities back from the corporations, and put explosions and inventions back in the garage where they belong!

/Actually kind of serious

Radio 4 on the BBC will be having a live broadcast tomorrow. I would love them to pull a Orson Welles.

He said: "If the LHC were to produce little black holes, I don't think there is any doubt I would get a Nobel Prize, if they showed the properties I predict.


Cocky much?

Yes, it is vital to the survival of the human race that a tiny minority of the world's population has a toy with which to answer arcane and largely academic questions. If this doesn't happen, we're all going to die. Stephen Hawking is now the official poster boy for hyperbole.

IXI Jim IXI: Approves

/hotlinkin' like a mothafarkin' gangsta

I call that and raise you this:

Stephen Hawking rules.

tboucher: He's also bet $100 it won't find the higgs bosun.

I don't think Higgs even owns a ship, so he is quids in there.

I guess we'll know at 1:30 a.m. CDT if we're all gonna die... (new window)

/crossing fingers
//big money!
///no black holes!

The Angry Hand of God: I call that and raise you this:

awesome...I've been looking for that graphic since I first saw it.

/motha-farkin' SAVED

When worlds collide!!!!


/Thanks for the Total FARK j_bigbird!
//Can't see half the sites due to being behind the Great Golden Shield Wall.

sboyle1020: He said: "If the LHC were to produce little black holes, I don't think there is any doubt I would get a Nobel Prize, if they showed the properties I predict.


Cocky much?

I thought the same thing. Then I remembered it's Stephen freakin' Hawking. I think he's allowed to make those kinds of statements.

engrishmajor: Didn't Hawking say almost exactly the same thing about the the colonization of other planets a couple years ago? Maybe it's just me, but he seems to be increasingly eccentric as he ages.

Or it may just be that understanding exactly how gravity works might be usefull to interstellar exploration and/or colinisation?

canyoneer: Yes, it is vital to the survival of the human race that a tiny minority of the world's population has a toy with which to answer arcane and largely academic questions. If this doesn't happen, we're all going to die. Stephen Hawking is now the official poster boy for hyperbole.

Will you get off the internet already - it was only invented so people could answer arcane and largely academic questions more easily.

Large Hadron Collider? Hardley knew her