They'd better get the name of it right: I presume, previous to the LHC, there have been a Small and a Medium so Xtra Large might be good - plus there's plenty of room for further, bigger colliders.
But if they leap straight in with "Mega" or "Super Ginormous" - well, they're gonna run out of names for future colliders pretty damn quick.
"Quite Big" is nicely understated; but in this age of superlative madness, where everything is "Giga", and "Ultra" - even though it's the first iteration of a product - and people who manage to walk across a room without blinding themselves with a spoon are labelled "Heroes"...
Well, they'll probably call it the "Omega Class, Hyper-lightspeed, Super-massive, Multi-yottabyte Particle Annihilator"
And then, when they want a bigger one, they'll be fucked - like Beta should be.
Some facts:
According to quick research the US uses 370 million gallons of gas a day, so that's about 37 million gallons of booze at 10% additive.
Quick research show an adult population of about 250 million in the US
Some conjecture:
A number of that 250 million adults might not drink booze due to religious, medical or personal reasons, let's say 10% - so 225 million like a drink
Some of those people might not want to get drunk every day - let's say 20% - so 180 million might want daily booze
A gallon of booze would probabaly get 5 people drunk - so that's 185 million people that could be drunk every day
Some results:
Roughly every person who wanted to, could be drunk every day if the Government didn't make you burn booze in your car
Write to your Government NOW and stop this shameless waste of booze !
There are countless of examples of people picking up shapes of what looked like "angels", or "face of Jesus", or whatever... from things as diverged as rust on a door to oil stain on a glass window panel, and so on...
AC is so right - I was in a church the other day and looked up at a glass window panel and I was like "OMG it's full of angels and faces of Jesus!"
Wait till we get nanobots into our nano-coolant. They'd be there for maintenance if a component starts going wrong.
However, I do see problems...
"Sorry teacher, my computer had a coolant leak and the nanobots ate my homework. They also disassembled my dog and turned my roller skates into a tiny death star."
A programme about this was on BBC Radio 4 a couple of years back. IIRC both the scientist and the presenter tried a little bit of "burger" grown in a lab and it was tasteless. Not horrible - just.... nothing much. Also the texture wasn't quite right.
I think the scientist said that meat (muscle) derives a lot of its taste from the surrounding fat when it's cooked - and, of course, this had no fat.
The next stage on was to make it taste nice - perhaps in the past two years they've got somewhere with it.
" D'ye fucking ken who ye're dealing with here? Nae ? Well I'm the fucking Doctor ye alien shite, now get the fuck outta mah sight or I'll beat ye like a red-headed step-bairn ! "
( With apologies to Irvine Welsh )
Oh, and maybe move the time slot for the show to 11pm;)
I'd go for Christopher Lloyd - in full-on Emmett Brown / Jim Ignatowski mode, preferably with a British accent but it's not that important. That'd be awesome:)
Had to reply as it reminds me of an old joke: Whar's the difference between rugby and football ? Football is 11 players pretending they're injured, rugby is 15 players pretending they're not.;)
" Doctor, is it true that if I avoid drugs, alcohol, tobacco, fornicaton, exotic foods and run 5 miles a day I will live to 80 ? "
" No, but it will certainly feel like it ! " ;)
Dupe submissions could easily be avoided if Timothy was happy - causing his brain to produce a level of gamma waves - specifically those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory.
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They'd better get the name of it right: I presume, previous to the LHC, there have been a Small and a Medium so Xtra Large might be good - plus there's plenty of room for further, bigger colliders.
But if they leap straight in with "Mega" or "Super Ginormous" - well, they're gonna run out of names for future colliders pretty damn quick.
"Quite Big" is nicely understated; but in this age of superlative madness, where everything is "Giga", and "Ultra" - even though it's the first iteration of a product - and people who manage to walk across a room without blinding themselves with a spoon are labelled "Heroes"...
Well, they'll probably call it the "Omega Class, Hyper-lightspeed, Super-massive, Multi-yottabyte Particle Annihilator"
And then, when they want a bigger one, they'll be fucked - like Beta should be.
Some facts:
According to quick research the US uses 370 million gallons of gas a day, so that's about 37 million gallons of booze at 10% additive.
Quick research show an adult population of about 250 million in the US
Some conjecture:
A number of that 250 million adults might not drink booze due to religious, medical or personal reasons, let's say 10% - so 225 million like a drink
Some of those people might not want to get drunk every day - let's say 20% - so 180 million might want daily booze
A gallon of booze would probabaly get 5 people drunk - so that's 185 million people that could be drunk every day
Some results:
Roughly every person who wanted to, could be drunk every day if the Government didn't make you burn booze in your car
Write to your Government NOW and stop this shameless waste of booze !
AC is so right - I was in a church the other day and looked up at a glass window panel and I was like "OMG it's full of angels and faces of Jesus!"
Really ? He'd have been better off with VI - everyone knows it stands for Voice Input :p
Wait till we get nanobots into our nano-coolant. They'd be there for maintenance if a component starts going wrong.
However, I do see problems...
"Sorry teacher, my computer had a coolant leak and the nanobots ate my homework. They also disassembled my dog and turned my roller skates into a tiny death star."
This is "Men who stare at goats". In space. With copper.
Bidets are like royalty. Nobody quite knows what they're for but they do give a touch of class to a room if they're in it.
A programme about this was on BBC Radio 4 a couple of years back. IIRC both the scientist and the presenter tried a little bit of "burger" grown in a lab and it was tasteless. Not horrible - just.... nothing much. Also the texture wasn't quite right.
I think the scientist said that meat (muscle) derives a lot of its taste from the surrounding fat when it's cooked - and, of course, this had no fat.
The next stage on was to make it taste nice - perhaps in the past two years they've got somewhere with it.
Ah, hence my apologies to Irvine Welsh - I fucked up my "Scottish" more than I could possibly imagine !
Aye, he'll be a great Doctor...
;)
" D'ye fucking ken who ye're dealing with here? Nae ? Well I'm the fucking Doctor ye alien shite, now get the fuck outta mah sight or I'll beat ye like a red-headed step-bairn ! "
( With apologies to Irvine Welsh )
Oh, and maybe move the time slot for the show to 11pm
I'd go for Christopher Lloyd - in full-on Emmett Brown / Jim Ignatowski mode, preferably with a British accent but it's not that important. That'd be awesome :)
Spellcheck patently sucks - presuming you posted from Chrome ? :p
Maybe one of the medics told them ? You know like Dr. WHO or someone ;)
Had to reply as it reminds me of an old joke: Whar's the difference between rugby and football ? Football is 11 players pretending they're injured, rugby is 15 players pretending they're not. ;)
Nostalgia: It's not as good as it used to be.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these robot overlords running linux, in Russia, throwing chairs !
It's in the subject line, the comment is redundant but I had to type something ;)
Can't mod up past 5, but really this comment score should go up to 11
If we're controlling robots from space then I for one welcome our new robotic underlords.
" Doctor, is it true that if I avoid drugs, alcohol, tobacco, fornicaton, exotic foods and run 5 miles a day I will live to 80 ? "
;)
" No, but it will certainly feel like it ! "
Dupe submissions could easily be avoided if Timothy was happy - causing his brain to produce a level of gamma waves - specifically those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory.
I'm not sure about any of this - has it ever been reported before in neuroscience ?
Hey, I'd pay good money to see dominoes thrown at cats (as long I didn't have to wait a week to see it)
Skip all of the attempts to get the show (legally or otherwise) - just get pthisis (27352) to post their rather splendid summary after each episode !
IBM: Hi Toshiba, Would you like to buy our POS business ?
Tosh: Wow, yeah !
** money changes hands
Tosh: This business is a total POS !
IBM: Haha