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LHC Flips On Tomorrow
BTJunkie writes "The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds most expensive science experiment, is set to be turned on tomorrow. We've discussed this multiple times already. A small group of people believe our world will be sucked into extinction (some have even sent death threats). The majority of us, however, won't be losing any sleep tonight."
Reader WillRobinson notes that CERN researchers declared the final synchronization test a success and says, "The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made this Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). The start up time will be between (9:00 to 18:00 Zurich Time) (2:00 to 10:00 CDT) with live webcasts provided at webcast.cern.ch."
No, the ISS can't be the most expensive science project because it has little to do with science. ISS is a project alright but not a science project. Kind of an anti-science project realy as it's main purpose seems to be to suck up money from science related stuff.
Question to mods: Why is someone explaining a joke modded to +5 funny?
He explicitly stated what the parent post already obviously implied. No joke extension. Where is the humor?
Uhm, in case you haven't noticed, I'm not running for president.
Your argument is just silly. According to that line of logic, I couldn't question some homeless guy's qualifications to be the head of CERN, since I'm not a scientist. It's a logical fallacy of the highest order.
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