I never said that. You totally misread my post and probably the people that mod you up didn't even read it.
What I said is that more research should be done BEFORE we turn on the LHC. Fermilab is not creating micro-black-holes, but advances in "trapping" the Higgs Boson where made on it 10 days ago.
There is still a lot of knowledge we can get without playing with this big buggy monster, at least until we are sure it's not buggy and that the calculations where right.
Humans have been breathing for thousands of years without rifts opening, so I think breathing is safe. How many microscopic black holes have been man-made before?
well, LHC will indeed create black holes, and we all know the LHC has had flaws before (it even got broken). The only part I am not sure is that if "the worst case scenario" will happen.
Maybe it does work fine, maybe it explodes and kills people. The fact is we don't know for sure what would happen, and saying "it will work fine" will be as ignorant as saying "it will kill us omg". That is why I think doing more research and tests will be a good idea BEFORE we turn the toy on.
1. Yep, the universe is conducting huge physics experiments, but very VERY far away from where we are, not in the middle of Europe
2. Thinking deeply is always done FIRST than experimentation (at least in the scientific method), when you first make an hypothesis and then predictions (Wikipedia even describes it as "logical thinking" and "calculations") before experimentation, which is the last step.
3. I wrote that post because it is obvious for any observer that there are flaws in the LHC. They have already broken a magnet of it, and now a student finds a flaw in one of its calculations.
Maybe it doesn't turn into a big black hole, but it can explode and/or cause any other tragedy.
Never ever underestimate Murphy's Law, we need to learn to be less arrogant.
until enough people / scientists are SURE nothing bad will happen.
Some people keep saying they are minor flaws, that nothing will happen, and that it is all safe... but people are still finding flaws in it's design. How many miscalculations could there be that we aren't aware of?
Maybe we should wait 'till we completely understand the basics of physics (we are still making discoveries even with carbon molecules) before we turn on something that in the worst case (black hole) will wipe out our solar system. This is not gunpowder we are playing with.
why hurt them? he is obviously mad because he is imprisoned, because humans don't leave them alone. Just give them their liberty back and problem solved.
Wanna see wild life? go visit them, not imprison them. Hasn't history and evolution taught us that depriving a living being from its liberty does nothing more that turning that being against the one imprisoning it?
Nowadays kids have fun playing games like Wii-Sports. With the new generation of controllers, games that require physical activity to be controlled will start to appear.
Get them some of those games and let them invite their friends to play. They will sweat their asses trying to beat each other. Also never forget to promote real sports too (even if you have to drag them to the playground).
We are still making discoveries about fairly simple chemical reactions with complete elements. How can we be sure that a huge subatomic toy is going to work the way they say?
Maybe we should try to figure out all the basic stuff first... just a feeling in my guts.
I can only dream of the kind of country I will be living if we had honest politicians...
.ve is a beautiful country, girls there are well known for being extremely beautiful, and I have close friends and family that migrated there and now have a family. I will love to visit.ve beaches too! I apologize to you and everyone I might have made uncomfortable with what I wrote, it's just that I am a bit worried about what is happening there. I never meant to insult your country, and I wish.ve the best. Anything that benefits our neighbors will benefit us all.
publications like MAD will need to evolve into new communication media in order to stay in business. They already have the formula, the characters, the jokes and the artists... just throw in some 2D animators and a few web programmers and voila'! cash made out of internet traffic.
Something curious is that Manga Magazines like Shonen Jump do not appear to be lowering their sales.
that I booted a month ago after 25 years of being inside a dusty closet. It booted DOS from a 5 1/4" 3M diskette, and I was able to play "Zaxxon" and "Pirates!" from other disks lying around. Many didn't work, but there where enough survivors to show my son how was computing back in the early 80's.
Preserving modern electronics shouldn't be THAT hard.
funny thing, I bet it wouldn't be hard for you to find an IT job over here, the catch is it will be a "peruvian salary" (much lower than US). On the other hand, you can buy a GOOD lunch (peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world) at the center of our main commercial district for about US$ 7 (two dish meal + natural juice + fresh fruit - they are called "executive menu"). Not a bad deal if you live here.
a much better idea will be if you come here to start your own IT company - wouldn't be a huge investment and local University graduates will happily work for less than 1k$ a month. You can sell services overseas if you want.
when I was little I dreamed of living in the US, so I could go to Disney & Epcot every weekend. Right now I wouldn't live over there even if they payed me for doing it. Living in South America is not as bad as they want you to believe (except for.ve 'cause their president is nuts).
Many people from Latin American countries (like me)haven't ever watched this before, this kind of humor was rarely shown in latin-american television, because the "average Jose" wouldn't enjoy it if its translated into spanish. But times change...
last generations (people now in their 20's - 30's) learned english in schools (the "boom" of bilingual schools started in the 80's - lucky me), now they are getting on the internet and enjoying different flavors of humor (and many other cultural components) they find while surfing.
now that Latin America economy is growing (Peru -my country- is expected to grow 6% this year) this will surely open a new market not only for them but for whoever does a similar thing.
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I never said that. You totally misread my post and probably the people that mod you up didn't even read it.
What I said is that more research should be done BEFORE we turn on the LHC. Fermilab is not creating micro-black-holes, but advances in "trapping" the Higgs Boson where made on it 10 days ago.
There is still a lot of knowledge we can get without playing with this big buggy monster, at least until we are sure it's not buggy and that the calculations where right.
Humans have been breathing for thousands of years without rifts opening, so I think breathing is safe. How many microscopic black holes have been man-made before?
well, LHC will indeed create black holes, and we all know the LHC has had flaws before (it even got broken). The only part I am not sure is that if "the worst case scenario" will happen.
Maybe it does work fine, maybe it explodes and kills people. The fact is we don't know for sure what would happen, and saying "it will work fine" will be as ignorant as saying "it will kill us omg". That is why I think doing more research and tests will be a good idea BEFORE we turn the toy on.
1. Yep, the universe is conducting huge physics experiments, but very VERY far away from where we are, not in the middle of Europe
2. Thinking deeply is always done FIRST than experimentation (at least in the scientific method), when you first make an hypothesis and then predictions (Wikipedia even describes it as "logical thinking" and "calculations") before experimentation, which is the last step.
3. I wrote that post because it is obvious for any observer that there are flaws in the LHC. They have already broken a magnet of it, and now a student finds a flaw in one of its calculations. Maybe it doesn't turn into a big black hole, but it can explode and/or cause any other tragedy.
Never ever underestimate Murphy's Law, we need to learn to be less arrogant.
until enough people / scientists are SURE nothing bad will happen.
Some people keep saying they are minor flaws, that nothing will happen, and that it is all safe... but people are still finding flaws in it's design. How many miscalculations could there be that we aren't aware of?
Maybe we should wait 'till we completely understand the basics of physics (we are still making discoveries even with carbon molecules) before we turn on something that in the worst case (black hole) will wipe out our solar system. This is not gunpowder we are playing with.
that's because it was a PowerPC box, try doing that with the new core2 Apple boxes.
Monkeys from Peru's jungle live at about 36-42C an like 90% humidity.
I have seen them, they have their temper. I just can't imagine how mad and stressed they can be.
why hurt them? he is obviously mad because he is imprisoned, because humans don't leave them alone. Just give them their liberty back and problem solved.
Wanna see wild life? go visit them, not imprison them. Hasn't history and evolution taught us that depriving a living being from its liberty does nothing more that turning that being against the one imprisoning it?
Nowadays kids have fun playing games like Wii-Sports. With the new generation of controllers, games that require physical activity to be controlled will start to appear.
Get them some of those games and let them invite their friends to play. They will sweat their asses trying to beat each other. Also never forget to promote real sports too (even if you have to drag them to the playground).
the above comment is so funny and true that deserves to be added in the wikipedia page.
most of the coverage will be using internet services, traditional media can't compete with this.
on all that media coverage and use that money to pay some of the lawyers fees.
why do they want to hurry things? maybe waiting a few years will be good, let people recover from their financial problems first.
We are still making discoveries about fairly simple chemical reactions with complete elements. How can we be sure that a huge subatomic toy is going to work the way they say?
Maybe we should try to figure out all the basic stuff first... just a feeling in my guts.
be careful, you can end up programming closed source programs that run on top of a NetBSD kernel.
the thing is they didn't test the device this article is talking about.
send this to Mythbusters, i'll like to see that company tying to sue them.
outside US borders?
What's next? trying to push a world wide patriot act?
I can only dream of the kind of country I will be living if we had honest politicians...
.ve beaches too! .ve the best. Anything that benefits our neighbors will benefit us all.
.ve is a beautiful country, girls there are well known for being extremely beautiful, and I have close friends and family that migrated there and now have a family. I will love to visit
I apologize to you and everyone I might have made uncomfortable with what I wrote, it's just that I am a bit worried about what is happening there. I never meant to insult your country, and I wish
publications like MAD will need to evolve into new communication media in order to stay in business. They already have the formula, the characters, the jokes and the artists... just throw in some 2D animators and a few web programmers and voila'! cash made out of internet traffic.
Something curious is that Manga Magazines like Shonen Jump do not appear to be lowering their sales.
that I booted a month ago after 25 years of being inside a dusty closet. It booted DOS from a 5 1/4" 3M diskette, and I was able to play "Zaxxon" and "Pirates!" from other disks lying around. Many didn't work, but there where enough survivors to show my son how was computing back in the early 80's.
Preserving modern electronics shouldn't be THAT hard.
funny thing, I bet it wouldn't be hard for you to find an IT job over here, the catch is it will be a "peruvian salary" (much lower than US). On the other hand, you can buy a GOOD lunch (peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world) at the center of our main commercial district for about US$ 7 (two dish meal + natural juice + fresh fruit - they are called "executive menu"). Not a bad deal if you live here.
.ve 'cause their president is nuts).
a much better idea will be if you come here to start your own IT company - wouldn't be a huge investment and local University graduates will happily work for less than 1k$ a month. You can sell services overseas if you want.
when I was little I dreamed of living in the US, so I could go to Disney & Epcot every weekend. Right now I wouldn't live over there even if they payed me for doing it. Living in South America is not as bad as they want you to believe (except for
now I will like to buy their DVD's.
Many people from Latin American countries (like me)haven't ever watched this before, this kind of humor was rarely shown in latin-american television, because the "average Jose" wouldn't enjoy it if its translated into spanish. But times change...
last generations (people now in their 20's - 30's) learned english in schools (the "boom" of bilingual schools started in the 80's - lucky me), now they are getting on the internet and enjoying different flavors of humor (and many other cultural components) they find while surfing.
now that Latin America economy is growing (Peru -my country- is expected to grow 6% this year) this will surely open a new market not only for them but for whoever does a similar thing.
they are not firing people because the company cannot pay them, but because the owners of the companies don't want to earn less money this year.
what else did you expect from capitalism?
because video games are one of devil's little tricks to control children minds!
after, it's all about the children right?