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Discuss The Higgs Boson in The Science Forum on The Army Rumour Service; Hopefully all this wonderful technology will help me to find my car keys....
  1. 04-07-2012, 13:51 #11
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    Hopefully all this wonderful technology will help me to find my car keys.
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    Quote Originally Posted by R.Sinabout View Post
    Hopefully all this wonderful technology will help me to find my car keys.
    Oh this marvellous machine can easily do that. Wait...wait...Ah yes, as you approach your car, they'll be in your right trouser pocket if your right arm is carrying bags full of heavy shopping.
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  3. 09-07-2012, 12:52 #13
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    Just when I thought that my vital work here was done... some are now claiming that the boson is work of the Devil, Satan's dust, such discoveries are a sin etc. Others are claiming that it's gods magic or jesus said "behold the LHC for it is my fathers toy"...or something like that!

    What next?

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    http://freethinker.co.uk/ ..... http://www.youtube.com/user/AmazingM...57/JX9M_w3tZHw
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  4. 09-07-2012, 12:58 #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodney2q View Post
    Just heard some science chap on the radio saying something along the lines of "the research has no practical use, it won't affect the price of your shopping for example, but it will help us understand how the universe was formed".

    Right.

    Now how about putting all the expensive technology, money and brainpower into doing something effin' useful for a change - like figuring alternatives to fossil fuel and coal fire power stations.

    Rodney2q
    Sounds familiar that! I vaguely remember seeing a quote from someone famous to the effect that computers were of very little use and that the total requirement was for only a handful.
    3; 2; 1; Firing NOW.........

    3; 2; 1; Firing NOW ........

    FFS Pass me the bloody matches.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Higgs_bosun View Post
    What next?

    Collide a christian and a muslim together at the speed of light and see what happens...
    A Jew
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  6. 09-07-2012, 13:24 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by eodmatt View Post
    Sounds familiar that! I vaguely remember seeing a quote from someone famous to the effect that computers were of very little use and that the total requirement was for only a handful.
    "Computers in the future may weigh no more than one-and-a-half tonnes."
    - Popular Mechanics, 1949

    "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
    - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

    "I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last the year."
    - Chief Business Editor, Prentice Hall, 1957

    "There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their
    home."
    - Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977

    "Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless."
    "Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop."
    - Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

    "The world is coming to an end. Please log orff."
    - Posix 2.1.1 System Shutdown Message

    "640k is enough for anyone, and by the way, what's a network?"
    - William Gates III, President of Microsoft Corporation, 1984.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodney2q View Post
    ...

    "There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their
    home."
    - Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977

    ...

    Rodney2q
    Fair point...
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    Them international subnuclear physicists must be fucking as thick as fucking mince. I mean if you are looking for a particle which is responsible for mass then why build a fuck off huge tunnel through half of France and most of Switzerland with absolutely fuck all inside it?

    If you are looking for something responsible for mass then a huge artificial vacuum is a shit place to start and is well expensive.

    If it were my experiment I would have saved billions by looking for the Higgs Lardon inside a Big Mac, or by accellerating hot pies at lazy bastard American kids!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodney2q View Post
    Just heard some science chap on the radio saying something along the lines of "the research has no practical use, it won't affect the price of your shopping for example, but it will help us understand how the universe was formed".

    Right.

    Now how about putting all the expensive technology, money and brainpower into doing something effin' useful for a change - like figuring alternatives to fossil fuel and coal fire power stations.

    Rodney2q
    Similar things where said about studying electrons, protons, anti-matter etc. Thankfully scientists studied them anyway, leading to telephones, radio, electric lights, computers, TV, PET scanners, x-rays, the WWW and so on.

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  10. 21-07-2012, 13:15 #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rodney2q View Post
    Just heard some science chap on the radio saying something along the lines of "the research has no practical use, it won't affect the price of your shopping for example, but it will help us understand how the universe was formed".

    Right.

    Now how about putting all the expensive technology, money and brainpower into doing something effin' useful for a change - like figuring alternatives to fossil fuel and coal fire power stations.

    Rodney2q
    They have I belive a cunning plan when the world runs out of oil ect they will boot up this machine and start the universe all over again
    Pissed off and skint so no change then
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