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Private Donor Saves Fermilab

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-particles-fight-terror dept.

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."

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  1. SCIENCE? Who needs that shit? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 5, Funny
    MY GOD!!! We have nations to invade, and children to burn, and a treasury full of cash that needs to be looted by the military industrial complex. We don't need stuff like BASIC RESEARCH. Hell with that crap. We need bombs and guns to keep the empire rolling and extract other nations resources for our own lazy convenience.

    RS

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    1. Re:SCIENCE? Who needs that shit? by marshac · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's sad is your comment was rated as Informative rather than funny...

  2. Re:very humbled by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can either be seen as a massive wave or a massive particle, depending on how it's measured.

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  3. Re:The sad thing... by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 4, 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!

  4. Re:Taxes by knarf · · Score: 3, Funny

    democracy is 2 foxes and 1 chicken voting on what's for dinner.

    ...while in the Republic of the US the chickens vote on which of the 2 foxes gets to eat them.

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  5. Re:Small government, private philanthropy by dreamchaser · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.