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LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting
An anonymous reader writes "Only four days after the first attempt to send a particle beam around the LHC, we have arrived at the point when all four experiments got their first real collisions from the machine. This was met by celebrations and champagne, as people have been waiting years and years for this moment. It is a testament to the engineering of the machine that collisions were reached already, so few days after restarting. The LHC had already demonstrated ca 10h stable beams, and now also stable beams in both directions at the same time. In the coming weeks, we need only wait for increased intensity and the first attempts at acceleration."
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great.
It's so delicious and moist.
Look at me still talking
when there's Science to do.
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
MrMista, do they make "jokes" on your planet?
http://www.google.com/search?q=+missing+the+joke
Since the GP is getting modded "funny", you may be the ONLY person on Slashdot who didn't get it. Congratulations, you're an idiot.
one may actually get to become proven
You sir, don't know how science works. It doesn't prove anything to be right - it only proves things to be wrong. What's left over after you remove all the stuff you know is wrong is an increasingly small amount of stuff that makes a reasonable approximation for right. As we show more and more stuff to be wrong, we get a better and better approximation.
It's like the pitcher in the batting cage throwing balls at the other pitcher to see if he gets mad. Then in the real game he dose not throw baseballs, but zip lock bags full of backing soda, because the other pitcher is throwing newspapers, and if you hit a flying newspaper with a bag of backing soda fried chicken falls from the sky. But only on days of the month that are prime numbed. Because in real life the pitcher in the batting cage would also have sack of tomatoes to snack on after he strikes out. If the fired chicken hits a tomato then it would create a love quark. And if you get enough love quarks then you can make a small black hole that will suck up the whole of everything in a matter of a bizzillion years. But you see that's why you have the fried chicken. Black holes hate fried chicken, so if you create a black hole just toss some KFC at it and then it will evaporate into a puff of mashed potatoes. That's why you need a pitcher, to hit the black hole with a chicken wing before it has a chance to fall to the centre of the sun.
We are the Borg...