Typewriters going extinct — not yet
Large Hadron Collider scientists finding the “God Particle” — not so much
iPhone tracks your every single movement and rats you out to the Feds — sort of, but not really, and Steverino swears they’ve got a patch for that
Barack Obama releases birth certificate, proving he was born in Hawaii — still a no-good sekrit Muslin nigra according to almost 25% of the entire population of the U.S.
One more doomsday fetish down the drain, I see. Of course we’ve still got killer asteroids, bird flu, monster tsunamis, and a fourth judge on American Idol still waiting to destroy the world, so don’t give up the ship yet you fear-mongers.
The gang at Neatorama have wasted no time in cashing in on someone else’s success (a.k.a The American Way) by ginning up this “I Survived The LHC” logo and putting it on a t-shirt. It can be all yours for a mere $9.95 (plus shipping and handling). I’m a bit disappointed that the back doesn’t say “And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt”, but chiggers can’t be boozers after all. I have to admit that I’m sorely tempted to buy one, except that they come from CafePress.com, who use inferior t-shirts.
What they’ll do with this huge thing a couple of years from now, I can’t quite figure out yet. Are they going to put it up for sale on Craig’s List? Try to sell it on eBay like Sarah Palin tried with the governor’s jet? Put it out on the curb for “large item pickup” day and hope someone drives by and takes it before the garbage men show up? Do they even HAVE large item pickup day in Switzerland?
Remember that picture and link I posted a couple of weeks ago about the Large Hadron Collider being built by CERN?
Just a few days after I posted that, I happened upon a Discovery Channel documentary about the construction of one particular portion of the collider that focused on the incredible amount of precision, accuracy, and care required to place a detector assembly the size of a cruise ship by lowering it 60 meters down through a shaft and placing it with less than 1/2 inch of tolerance from the plans. A few days after I saw that, the actual detector itself (a 30-foot wheel that itself took 10 years to construct) was also lowered into place, completing the major assembly.
The link-blog Dark Roasted Blend has a post about the collider today that includes a ton of fabulous photographs, some of which detail the installation of the ATLAS detector. Some of the links in that post include statements from the researchers that suggest that the collider may demonstrate the possibility of time travel due to intersecting curves in the space-time continuum creating a sort of closed loop for particles to “return” to a time before they “left” a particular spot. And you don’t even have to be baked on weed to see it, dude!
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Is it me, or does the inside of this Large Hadron Collider look an awful lot like the interior of The Borg Cube?
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