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Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC
Engadget has pointed out a small band of people even we can consider nerdy that decided to cut loose and demo CERN's fancy new toy, the Large Hadron Collider. The resulting music video is certainly enough to "rock you in the head," and maybe even enough to cause a rip in space-time. Between Alpinekat and Dr Spatzo, I think my iPod just got a new entry.
Is this a dupe?
I love geek rock, and that one really does rock! That lead rapper is awesome, and the lyrics are simply fantastic. The vid itself is quite cool as well.
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Who tf is playing with the volume? Just pick an amplitude and leave it alone!
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
This is not exactly new, but it's a fun little clip. Karma whoring or not, here's Youtube links in high quality and standard quality.
.: Max Romantschuk
damnit my nerdmeter just exploded
to see the dawn and dusk of human intelligence combined together :)
Why is the UI changed? Is it because of the video? WTF man! Keep the slashdot UI consistent! Thank you.
Given that LHC will create a black hole that will cause a time loop, the amount of time wasted by these guys will loop over and over, meaning they have wasted an infinite amount of time with this video. That pisses me off.
I get the impression that the submitter has never heard any MC Hawking, Monzy, Beefy, Spam Tech Crew, never visited rhymetorrents, etc...the submitted tune is actually a pretty weak and amateurish example of Nerdcore.
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After YouTube started mangling the audio it made it pretty useless for this sort of thing. Try Vimeo instead http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471
They sure seem to know all about math.
Let's hope these black holes won't kill -9 us all. :(
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The lyrics are very educational, but the Cernettes are far better.
What happened to the Cernettes anyway? And why don't they make a music video about this?
could learn a lot from CERN. I think I just learned more in 5 minutes than I did in high school.
I would've thought this is a valid candidate for science.slashdot.org. Only stuff from Reuters' Oddly Enough and the like get into idle.slashdot.org
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All I see is an ad from intel that is half blank and covers the teaser text.
I'd suggest http://www.amd.com/
Well - I would if they did not automatically assume I'm a bloody American
Here it is: http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2008/08/whos-down-with-lhc-yeah-you-know-me.html
oh my god this is bad. i know its slashdot but even this is too nerdy
A walk through the CMS cavern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoMhD24wzbg
this shit is weak son\
80s rap is retired\
you best be like an e^- \
trhough my tube and get fired\
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BS deadlines like AMD building fabs\
u just making niggas cry at joints like FermiLab\
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That shorty in the vid, smart but dont give good brains\
experimental evidence -- strings on p-branes\
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I keep it gangsta\
you know it means alot \
my rhymes are like electromagnets\
gettin to be hot\
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You CERN mother fuckers just better not fail\
or ill chop u fools down\
TeV Scale!\
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Stop thinking apocalypse\
like some dirty otaku\
i speak the theory\
as if im Michio Kakku\
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Set this shit off hard!\
Listen up you niggs!\
Time to fuck up some particles\
and find us some higgs\
http://www.youtube.com/v/BXzugu39pKM&hl=en&fs=1
If they can use music to teach little kids the alphabet, why not use it to teach science? This kind of thing might actually make a difference in high school.
I piss off bigots.
Eh.. not as good as BabyCakes singing "Be Aggressive"
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
MC Hawking files a lawsuit for character infringement.
I think you mean Dr. Sbaitso.
Rap? When''s the reggae version coming out?
There's more to it than this.
They didn't use the obvious line "I've got a hard-on for hadrons!"
Dr. Sbaitso was the text-to-speech software package that came with early-mid 90s SoundBlaster software. I have to wonder if "Dr. Spatzo" is simply a phonetic corruption of such.
An example of a through process...
I read the title.
"Why would nerds rap in the first place?"
They already aren't cool so maybe it was contamination of the water supply.
"And why would they be rapping about Light's Hope Chapel?"
LOL WAT?
And no, I will NOT turn in my geek badge.
This is totally bumping my Peter Howell and Ron Grainer Doctor Who themes from my list of ringtones.
The original CERN group:
the Cernettes
You'd think Stephen Hawking would be really busy, but somehow they got him to do the opening and closing voiceover. Glad to see he's got time for some fun too.
If you guys like geek rap, you should check out the artist named ytcracker. His album named "Nerd Entertainment System" is pure awesome. I'm not a huge fan of some of the later stuff, but it's very fun listening to a guy rapping about assembly opcodes, IRC, etc :)
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All the nerds waxing lyrical about the LHC rap, but "I shall derive" had shit poured on it. Jeez! ..... both accurate, both crap musically, both fun, both on youtube, both enjoyed by my students ... but one gets accolades and one gets dumped. Do I detect some intellectual elitism creeping in? NO of course not this is Slashdot after all.
As the video states we are in for a new understanding. Some may have already figured out what that means and it is disturbing because it clashes with the classical perception of our reality and our self. Liberating because of the new freedoms and capability that are unleashed. Read on http://godparticle.net/
"an infinite player that has lost his finite mind" ~Infinite Play the Movie (it blends with reality)
Why is rap still so popular? I think it answers the 21 century carving for information, for example the same information as in main article will have doubled it's length in almost any other modern music style.
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