#126 Science for Fun and Profit
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In case you missed it, the world didn’t end when they turned on the Large Hadron Collider on September 10, 2008. It would be understandable if you missed this. The so-called major news outlets barely gave it a mention. They also routinely fail to report that the sun has risen or that no asteroids have hit the Earth today. They’re too busy reporting on trivial things like the the latest Hollywood gossip, the weather, and who won the Presidential Election.
Of course, as my correspondent called Mainframe points out, all of the news stories about the world’s biggest science fair project ignored the real question; is it a collider designed to work with large hadrons or is it a large collider designed to work with hadrons. This is the kind of ambiguity that makes the public suspicious of scientists. After all, if they can’t tell us what they’re actually building, why should we trust them?…
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when I flip the switch and no light comes on a tiny thought enters my head that tells me that the light has been delayed today but will definitly arrive tomorrow. So i sit by a tree talk and contemplate eating.
All other things are a simple SEP field, pioneered by Douglas Adams. SEP: Somebody Else’s Problem
Very funny, son.