If you here a loud sucking noise...

[JJR512]

It might not be pretty, but I do know of an airport for sale, if anyone's interested. It's in Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the wealthiest counties (in the top 10, possibly even top 5) in the country, so it's probably a good investment.

 

[Huge]

I have to listen to the radio show again; been far too long...

Oh, that's right- the proposals have been posted at the Galactic Planning Office for years- lazy humans!

 

[chcr]

Resonance Cascade!!!!!!!

 

[BlurOfSerenity]

i don't know what it's all about, but i always though that guy from the halflife thing was hott. someday i'll convince my fiance to get glasses like those...

 

[Gato_Solo]

i don't know what it's all about, but i always though that guy from the halflife thing was hott. someday i'll convince my fiance to get glasses like those...

All he has to do is enlist in the military and ask for BCGs*. They're absolutely free, and worth every penny.

*Answer to that unasked question...

 

[BlurOfSerenity]

yeah, for me, they are the opposite of birth control goggles, lol.

 

[MrBishop]

yeah, for me, they are the opposite of birth control goggles, lol.

 

[MrBishop]

Are we dead yet?

 

[chcr]

So far, no Bish.

 

[Gonz]

This thing almost makes religion seem reasonable.

God did his thing.
Man invented a collider.
Earth disappears.
God redoes it, hoping man will learn.
Lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum.

That would explain the whole 6000 years vs 150000 (large number used for example) years vs 4 billion year thing. God just redoes the humans but leaves teh rest intact.

 

[chcr]

Or...

 

[Gonz]

Will they collide across genus?

 

[MrBishop]

 

[pc_builder]

How this world could suck even more than it already does is beyond me.

If the Earth didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

 

[MrBishop]

Well...we've got another 2 months to live it seems

 

[Inkara1]

I guess 1.9 Kelvin is really, really cold if it takes two months to warm up the area enough to work on it. Seems like one of these could help.

 

[Professur]

Austria pulls out of Large Hadron Collider

Particle physics means nothing to me, says Vienna

By Lewis Page • Get more from this author

Posted in Physics, 11th May 2009 09:09 GMT


Austria has announced plans to pull out of CERN, the international science alliance which runs the world's most powerful particle-punisher - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - and whose people invented the world wide web.

"I feel bad about every membership that we cannot keep up," said Science Minister Johannes Hahn on Friday, announcing Austrian plans for the pullout. He added that CERN membership currently absorbs 70 per cent of Austria's funding for international projects, and the withdrawal will allow various other initiatives to be funded.

Hahn also sought to characterise the Austrian move as a "pause" rather than a permanent break with CERN, and said that he hoped for "a new kind of cooperation" with the Franco-Swiss based collider organisation.

Top Austrian particle-smash boffins weren't pleased.

"This is a catastrophe," famed Vienna physicist Walter Thirring, a major cheese at CERN from 1968 to 1971, told AFP. He added that other nations might follow Austria in pulling out of the organisation, perhaps imperilling the LHC.

The Collider should have been operating by now, but following initial switch-on last year it suffered serious damage following a cooling failure. It's now expected to start seriously banging hadrons in the second half of this year.

Recent comments by the UK's new science minister and former medtech biz-cat Lord Drayson, to the effect that Blighty might need to refocus its science spending on more lucrative areas rather than LHC-style pure science, met with a robust response from CERN. Thus far there have been no other signs that the UK intends to follow Austria's example. ®

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