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Private Donor Saves Fermilab
sciencehabit writes "In what has to be an embarrasment for the U.S. Department of Energy, an anonymous donor has ponied up $5 million to keep the country's only remaining particle physics laboratory operating efficiently."
You can direct your appreciation towards me. Yes, me, Anonymous Coward. I sent the 5 million dollars.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
What we need is a nice young physicist to find some backwards way to use particle physics to "prove" intelligent design. The Republicans wouldn't be able to throw money at that place fast enough.
Took this comment seriously, did you?
Mr. Wayne.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Is it true about a massive wave of people leaving for CERN?
p.s. Love the bison you've got there.
Salami attack -- wow, there's now a term for everything.
Take that, people who are trying to learn English. You'll never learn it all!
It can either be seen as a massive wave or a massive particle, depending on how it's measured.
He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
ok this should be modded up +1 Funny!
Goddamn government leftists and their "Computer" research. Fat lot of fuckin good that'll ever do us. If that dork Turing cares so much, let him pay for it! None of that stuff will ever see the light of day or help us in general.
Oh wait!
I wonder if there are enough slashdot users that we could keep fermilab going by each of us donating a cent. That way fermilab could keep making discoveries that make good slashdot stories. It's a win win relationship.
Wealthy individuals donating huge amounts to science? It's an embarassment for Google.
yes... yes it does. now wheres my monica, er, i mean prostitute.
Doot!
Yes, 2/3 of us are planning to charter a C-5 cargo plane, load it up with ourselves and whatever we can scavenge (certainly the pendulum) and do an air drop over at CERN. We're bulldozing a big section of grass to make a runway. But before we go we're planning for a BIG barbecue, Ted Turner style.
"I had a massive hadron for your mother last night, Trebek."
>> a massive wave of people leaving for CERN?
Yes. It is described daily as the tsCERNami.
But Switzerland is filled with Swiss people, so the example hardly applies to other places...
on the plus side, I'm only a few hundred km away from a country that would take me in (due to my heritage in the unlikely event that something really bad was decided and I needed to get out of here FAST
Psh. When has that ever happened in Germany?
...while in the Republic of the US the chickens vote on which of the 2 foxes gets to eat them.
--frank[at]unternet.org
While good in theory, one look at what is popular on TV in the US these days makes me shudder at the thought of direct democracy.
Yes, that is somewhat a joke, but not really.
And they made that space-like Tempur material for my bed! YAY!
For the last time, PIN Number and ATM Machine are redundancies!
The mysterious donor was identified as:
EMPLOYEE NUMBER BASSE SIXTEEN