Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The hadrons, they are a collidin'

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.


Ok, maybe not what Dylan was talking about but hey, I love stories about hubris, folly and black holes. Plus if it does create a singularity time itself will be changing, literally.
Ah, time dilation, you are a cruel mistress.

In unrelated news I'd have to argue that this is complete bullshit.
Take 5 minutes to read comments left on youtube videos for proof that the internets do not, in fact attract or even encourage intelligence.

Also rockets. In space. October 27th.

2 comments:

Dementor said...

ok.
So they're not gonna make a black hole until next spring? They keep procrastinating, these guys.I know, black hole construction is scary, but shit, if you're gonna do it, than just do it already, and stop snoozing.

What about that rocket in space?
Didnt they do something similar back in the 60's? Whats so special about this one? If you ask me, this is a lot of flying car research and development money wasted. It looks more and more like a conspiracy. They're monopolizing all the people who would be able to give us the flying car to work on some big bogus rockets that give us absolutely nothing in return. What the hell did space exploration accomplish in the last 50 years? Big 0.

Master of the Craw said...

personally I think all they're trying to do is shoot penis shaped things into space.
this one is special because it will be the delivery vehicle for the new space capsule Orion.
Basically all of this is a battery of tests they are running that are similar to the Mercury program except that there's decades of knowledge in rocketry to rely on. It's mostly exciting because this is the sort of engineering challenges that get nerd's rocks off.