The results brought into question the unquestionable doctrine, and hence they had to be explained away.
Yes, I'm hearing rumors that they had to pull hundreds of scientists off of making up shit about dark matter and global warming, to come up with an emergency "explanation" (wink-wink) for this careless slip.
... there's a good chance that it will get a lot less attention from the media than the original report. On the other hand, it may also be seized upon by those who will see this new development as "proof" that scientists are just out to get attention and are therefore not to be trusted. *sigh*
Or else that they're overpaid fuckwits who can't even plug up their USB components correctly.
Almost makes you wish you hadn't laughed so hard when your 7th-grade science teacher couldn't get the demonstration to work in front of the class. (Ever tried writing a simple program with people watching? I can't even find the right keys on the keyboard.)
I hope you didn't use those cables right out of the package. Surely, you had them properly burned them in before you connected them. If not, you're are sacrificing the warmth of your low end.
I speed up the burn-in process by soaking them in prune juice and then drying them out in my microwave. Then 30 minutes of "The Monster Mash" through them while ramping up the volume from min to max on a logistic curve. Then 24 non-stop hours of music from the genre that you want them to reproduce most accurately. When done, unplug them and quench them in an appropriate chilled drink (wine for Classical, beer for Country, etc) to fix the quasi-crystaline structure you have induced.
For best results, invite three girls from you church choir to dance naked on the cables during the burn-in. It doesn't make much difference to the audio quality, but it sure makes the burn-in time fly faster.
I think there's a Heisenberg-like principle regarding jokes and their explanations. You can't experience its funniness and its explanation at the same time, kind of thing.
Quite likely it was the problem. Imagine the CERN saying, after almost a year, "Guys, LOL, that was a faulty cable. Move along...". No, they have to play it the drama way.
"After careful analysis, we have determined that the earth was temporarily passing through a region of spacetime that allowed neutrinos to travel faster than light, and made cable connections go slack."
In this case they'll need to run the experiment again with the apparatus fixed, and record a whole new data set.
I thought accounting for the cable was just a number that they plugged into the sum that came up short. If so, they would just need to plug in the correct number and observe the new sum.
nonsense, we wouldn't use chemical rockets. with today's technology a fission fragment motor could get to 12% C, making trip time including deceleration 46 years.
Can we build something of the complexity of a spaceship, that will remain reliable for 46 years?
I disagree, sending a ship to alpha centauri is an easily managed problem, it's just also an expensive one. You don't need any new science or technology to accomplish it
Just a species that's will to give up everything else so they can afford it.
Slashdot Mirror
If liberals don't think that a teenager quietly getting pregnant is wrong, why are they so keen to hand out condoms in schools?
a) Teenage pregnancy might not be a good idea, whether it's right or wrong?
b) Teenagers do get pregnant, whether it's right or wrong?
c) My big brother says condoms make the best water balloons?
d) No one should get pregnant "quietly", unless it's an artificial insemination?
This is the type of information I expect from Slashdot.
You're trying for the coveted "+5 funny", aren't you.
They are made up of 60 carbon atoms arranged into a hollow sphere, like a soccer ball.
You sure use little soccer balls in your league.
It's The Nanocloud. The ultimate buzzword.
Yes, but iNanocloud is the ultimate iBuzzword.
Same here, given that my dog's name is Bucky...
Presumably you wouldn't go for "Dingleberries" either.
They'd have to change their name. I, for one, could never welcome any overlord named Buckeyballs.
Presumably his fanatic warriors only call him that when he's not around.
then you have a plausible mechanism for biogenesis.
Or at very least a Star Trek episode script.
Star Tek scripts don't require plausible, or even reference to real stuff like graphene.
The results brought into question the unquestionable doctrine, and hence they had to be explained away.
Yes, I'm hearing rumors that they had to pull hundreds of scientists off of making up shit about dark matter and global warming, to come up with an emergency "explanation" (wink-wink) for this careless slip.
I always smile a little at Einstein's utter confidence in his connection to what makes the universe tick.
Unlike CERN, which had too much confidence in their connection?
...they made sure their fiber optic connectors were tightened before they challenged relativity.
In Italy, the connectors screw you.!
Look at the positive side, we already got one of the pieces of the time machine, a faulty cable, there is always a faulty cable!!
Imagine what you could do by stringing thousands of them together!
why don't you suggest a better method then, jackoff.
Isn't "jack-off" what the problem turned out to be?
... there's a good chance that it will get a lot less attention from the media than the original report. On the other hand, it may also be seized upon by those who will see this new development as "proof" that scientists are just out to get attention and are therefore not to be trusted. *sigh*
Or else that they're overpaid fuckwits who can't even plug up their USB components correctly.
Almost makes you wish you hadn't laughed so hard when your 7th-grade science teacher couldn't get the demonstration to work in front of the class. (Ever tried writing a simple program with people watching? I can't even find the right keys on the keyboard.)
Even the off-shored level1 tech support guy could have figured it out by reading step 2 of his manual.
Assuming he can read the language the manual is written in.
most importantly they disagree in a civilized manner
I take it you've never submitted a paper to a blind review conference.
Did they leave you feeling rejected?
Bah. Everyone knows that the largest deleterious effects come from hooking your directional interconnects up with the arrow pointing the wrong way.
I've discovered that if you file the arrow off, the cables work equally well in either orientation.
I hope you didn't use those cables right out of the package. Surely, you had them properly burned them in before you connected them. If not, you're are sacrificing the warmth of your low end.
I speed up the burn-in process by soaking them in prune juice and then drying them out in my microwave. Then 30 minutes of "The Monster Mash" through them while ramping up the volume from min to max on a logistic curve. Then 24 non-stop hours of music from the genre that you want them to reproduce most accurately. When done, unplug them and quench them in an appropriate chilled drink (wine for Classical, beer for Country, etc) to fix the quasi-crystaline structure you have induced.
For best results, invite three girls from you church choir to dance naked on the cables during the burn-in. It doesn't make much difference to the audio quality, but it sure makes the burn-in time fly faster.
Questions begone!
All this explaining has to stop right here and now!
Why?
I think there's a Heisenberg-like principle regarding jokes and their explanations. You can't experience its funniness and its explanation at the same time, kind of thing.
They haven't proved anything yet.
Quite likely it was the problem. Imagine the CERN saying, after almost a year, "Guys, LOL, that was a faulty cable. Move along...". No, they have to play it the drama way.
"After careful analysis, we have determined that the earth was temporarily passing through a region of spacetime that allowed neutrinos to travel faster than light, and made cable connections go slack."
In this case they'll need to run the experiment again with the apparatus fixed, and record a whole new data set.
I thought accounting for the cable was just a number that they plugged into the sum that came up short. If so, they would just need to plug in the correct number and observe the new sum.
nonsense, we wouldn't use chemical rockets. with today's technology a fission fragment motor could get to 12% C, making trip time including deceleration 46 years.
Can we build something of the complexity of a spaceship, that will remain reliable for 46 years?
I disagree, sending a ship to alpha centauri is an easily managed problem, it's just also an expensive one. You don't need any new science or technology to accomplish it
Just a species that's will to give up everything else so they can afford it.
drunk adults accounted for 83% of all drunk driving incidents in the US in 2008
That's nothing, drunks counted for 100% of them.
They're really more like metaphorical grandchildren
Hey - I wanted another car/computer analogy, you insensitive clod!