Nothing about cookies, but, hey, there’s this awesome rap about the LHC going around the toobs. I don’t think Phil has posted it yet…

Hey! Why am I getting all kinds of WOOHOO in my email? I just had some guy from the CIA send me evidence that the moon landings were faked!

“Cyclotrons with diameters a great as 17 feet have been made. Such a huge beast will accelerate particles to energies of almost half a billion volts.”

I think it’s fantastic to see the pace of technology in the sciences this past century. Pierce would freak if he knew of the LHC!

WHEREAS I have been daily reading posts and followed the transition from the original Bad Astronomy site to Discovery, and

WHEREAS I have subscribed to both the RSS and BA’s Twitter, and

WHEREAS I, after discovering the LHC Rap yesterday did knowingly and willingly forward it to the BA,

LET IT BE KNOWN that I take full responsibility for this posting and the thread that follows.

My apologies to all.

Now, did someone say something about Mrs. Fields cookies?

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1066
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1067
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1068

Sent you a link a while back to some very pretty atmospheric phenomena – and here it is again, since I just rediscovered it.

Perhaps you’ll like this feature from Roswell.

So, here’s the link: http://www.1tv.ru/newsvideo/127729 . It’s a cut from main Russian channel news, with video from US Congress. It’s translated, but one can hear the guy saying in the background “Georgia started war, not Russia”. It can be clearly herd.

I found a link to that speech in two Russian and two Georgian newspapers. As you may guess, our nespaper says congress accused Bush’s administration in lie. Georgian ones say that congress accused Russia. So, I cannot judge from the sources, but, you’re being able to make educated guesses – I’d like to hear your comments, and mainly I’d like to know what’s going on the press and TV in US now? Was that congressman (who apparently was basing his speech on military intelligence) heard? Thanks.

That is truly a tragic story. However, I would be careful in placing the entire blame on the media. I have struggled with clinical depression in my life, and there is usually more than one factor in bringing a person to that point in life. I am thinking that there were probably things going on such as depression in this young girls life prior to this. This may have been the thing that pushed her over the edge though. It’s sad that it may not have been picked up on before.

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle gives a limit on how fine a resolution you can simultaneously determine both position and momentum. You can’t even be anywhere near that limit using those lines.

Doomsday fear leads to teen’s death
Article from: Reuters, from correspondents in Bhopal
September 11, 2008 02:14am

A TEENAGE girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatised by media reports that a “Big Bang” experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24328349-5001028,00.html

I’ve seen it, and now it gets it’s own post and everything.

I don’t normally castigate people for that (sadly too common) error, but I expect a higher standard from you, Phil!

“A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners’ hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn’t know that a pirate doesn’t know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle? — Alan B. at EFI, Inc.

Oh well.

Strangely enough, I also got an email telling me that someone named Barack Obama was a Muslim…I have to admit, it didn’t make much sense at the time

Dangit, Phil – you’ve got me figured out. Nuts.

Ideally people he has man-crushes on.

That would be amusing.

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