Comments on: Europe: Day 2

By: Goncalo

Goncalo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:32:51 +0000

Hí

I loved the report about UK and Arriving to CERN : )
In a humorous side, if you want some laugh, take a look at the latest, wonderfull, funny and awesome entry from Jeremy Clarkson:
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article3768858.ece
I dunno if you know him….i think almost everyone in the world knows him, it´s like the greatest car journalist, known even in Greenland : )
Top Gear from BBC…..you know…
Well, it has some facts the way around from BA, how an european “lives” the US experience : )
best regards
Gonçalo

By: Dunc

Dunc — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:19 +0000

Forget Toblerone! What you want is Lindt’s dark Chilli Chocolate – that’s chocolate with teeth.

Damn straight – Toblerone is kids chocolate.

By: Lyle G

Lyle G — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:50:09 +0000

Having been from early childhood fascinated by lighter-than-air aviation, If I were in Europe, I would try to get to Fredrickshaven to see or even take a flight in a NT Zeppelin. Each to his own obsession, I suppose.

By: marko

marko — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:15:49 +0000

Phil, when you’re at CERN and you see a nice, big, red button labeled “DO NOT PRESS” or “NICHT DRÜCKEN” or “MRPH MRPH MRPH” — please do not press that thing.

Just an advice, and a bit late, I know. But watching the southern horizon here from Nuremberg, I see neither a mushroom cloud nor any growing all-encompassing blackness, so there’s hope.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:43:53 +0000

I am just getting into the wonders of backyard astronomy. I look forward to your posts and the experience that you share. Thanks.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:26:40 +0000

I note you’re only 500 km from one of my favorite cities, Amsterdam.
I have visited it a half dozen times(hack, cough,,,).

It reminds me quite a bit of San Francisco. Similar architecture and broad streets and such a liberal atmosphere.

Only three km from Geneva? Can you take pictures of the city from the LHC site? T’would be a cool video post.

Anticipating your future posts.

GAry 7

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:34:36 +0000

J’ai trouvé votre pantalon en dehors de la bibliothèque!

By: RAF

RAF — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:32:56 +0000

Wow, Phil…a European vacation without the Missus? How did you manage that?

By: Sterngucker

Sterngucker — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:22:46 +0000

I wish you a great and enjoyable time in Europe and of course at the LHC. I hope you can access your site soon so that we can read some cool things about the LHC.

Greets

By: uknesvuinng

uknesvuinng — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:03:51 +0000

Be sure to give some helicopters cancer when you get to see the LHC.

By: Wildride

Wildride — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:42:32 +0000

J’ai oublie mes pantalons a la biblioteque!

By: John Parejko

John Parejko — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:41:47 +0000

Badger3k: try posting on the BAUT forum, linked from the top banner:

http://www.bautforum.com

It looks like there Lerner’s ideas were discussed in a number of threads there already.

By: Badger3k

Badger3k — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:44:40 +0000

Sorry – wanted to add that I read the wikipedia, and saw that Paul Davies and Victor Stenger both argue against his ideas, but I am still curious as to others opinions.

By: Badger3k

Badger3k — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:41:41 +0000

I recently picked up (for real cheap) a book titled “The Big Bang Never Happened” by Eric Lerner. Reading a bit into it, the author makes claims that the microwave background radiation information that we received (this was in ’93 I think) was showing that the Big Bang theory was in trouble. This seems like woo to me, especially since he was pushing forward his own theory, but I know that there have been some physicists/cosmologists with serious issues with the current theory. Granted, this was around 15 years ago, but I was curious if anyone has heard of this fellow and his ideas (ie, is it worth my limited time to read this, or should I set it aside until I have time to read woo)?

Thanks for any advice.

By: Vat

Vat — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:44:51 +0000

Bah – there’s no such thing as electricity. As any electrician knows, everything is powered by smoke. That why, when the smoke starts pouring out, things stop working.

By: quasidog

quasidog — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:28:51 +0000

?!? … get’im !!!.. he’s a Mac user !!!!

jks

By: Jewel

Jewel — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:26:26 +0000

“Forget Toblerone! What you want is Lindt’s dark Chilli Chocolate – that’s chocolate with teeth.”

Chili chocolate — absolute yum. My favorite chocolate ever is Dagoba Xocolatl.

By: Hungarian

Hungarian — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:49:38 +0000

Btw, LHC is a Big ^#%*$(@!^ing Accelerator.

By: Hungarian

Hungarian — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:46:46 +0000

I hope you’re having a great time in Europe!

I suspected that you had been here already, by the odd timing of your previous posts.

By: Jim C

Jim C — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:18:47 +0000

Toblerone? You’ve got try all the types of Cailler, esp. Frigor.

http://cailler.ch/

–Jim

By: Sue Mitchell

Sue Mitchell — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:12:20 +0000

Forget Toblerone! What you want is Lindt’s dark Chilli Chocolate – that’s chocolate with teeth.

The only drawback is that it’s totally addictive.
–

By: Tom Huffman

Tom Huffman — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:49:07 +0000

“Canary Wharf. This, for the hopelessly uncool, is where the Cybermen and Daleks had their final battle, and Rose was trapped in the parallel Universe. As we passed that site, I shed a silent tear for The Doctor’s loss.”

You fan-boy, you!

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:39:44 +0000

Plait Orbiter (recently launched from Colorado) has crossed the orbit of Switzerland and is currently passing through Planet France, on its way to photograph the CERN phenomenon. We’re hopeful that further data and images will be retrieved!

By: hale_bopp

hale_bopp — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:48:45 +0000

Doesn’t CERN pass into France? Do the protons have to pass through immigration each time? That would really slow things down!

Seriously, though. I just got back from Europe (France and Romania, mostly business, part vacation) and the most difficult border to cross? Coming back into the USA.

I worked at Fermilab and have toured RHIC at Brookhaven and SLAC at Stanford, so I would love to add CERN to my list someday also. I have been to some meetings on how to use GRID computing in education with the people who work on the ATLAS detector…now just have to convince someone it would be good for me to go there!

By: Felix

Felix — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:39:37 +0000

You could just use a proxy server to access any website from anywhere
try this one :

http://www.stupidcensorship.com/cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi