The hadron collider

[persistent]

I dunno … this scenario could be 50/50

 

[persistent]

An act of God?!?

 

[Lynx]

It's so cheerful you had to post it three times?

Egad, what a downer!

 

[persistent]

It's so cheerful you had to post it three times?

Egad, what a downer!

what's wrong with Kinston trio?

 

[Eli1]

NASA has succeeded in changing the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos. NASA crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, aka DART, into Dimorphos a few weeks ago to test one possible method of protecting Earth from a dangerous body on a collision course with our planet.
"This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said while confirming the asteroid redirect during a press conference Tuesday.
To be clear, this was only a test of one potential defense method, called "deflection by kinetic impactor," that doesn't require nuclear weapons or celebrities on a suicide mission a la popular Hollywood movies like 1998's Armageddon.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/...ts-asteroid-in-watershed-moment-for-humanity/

This means that Bruce Willis won’t be needed anymore.

 

[persistent]

NASA has succeeded in changing the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos. NASA crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, aka DART, into Dimorphos a few weeks ago to test one possible method of protecting Earth from a dangerous body on a collision course with our planet.
"This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said while confirming the asteroid redirect during a press conference Tuesday.
To be clear, this was only a test of one potential defense method, called "deflection by kinetic impactor," that doesn't require nuclear weapons or celebrities on a suicide mission a la popular Hollywood movies like 1998's Armageddon.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/...ts-asteroid-in-watershed-moment-for-humanity/

This means that Bruce Willis won’t be needed anymore.

Now that asteroids orbit will impinge on another bigger asteroid and etc....until kaboom!...Government agencies just like to spend.

 

[persistent]

True story of a government funded agency where I once received a certain sum of money for taking up space at one of the facilities associated with what is known as the Deep Space Network. (DSN) An overhead lightbulb in the hallway had burned out and maintenance sent a man to replace it. Don't ask me how word got out, but there were at least five people gathered to observe this marvelous feat of replacing a lightbulb. Your tax dollars at work. Maybe in Europe it only takes four observers to achieve these results. That's efficiency.

 

[persistent]

Possibly it is Lederman who applied this sobriquet to the Higgs' boson. I have a copy but am too disinterested to refresh my memory and look at it as I would need go downstairs to get it and I won't do so now. Plus, there could be a neutrino that I would stub my toe on.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? is a 1993 popular science book by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman and science writer Dick Teresi. Wikipedia

 

[persistent]

It's so cheerful you had to post it three times?

Egad, what a downer!

Notice how prescient the verses are!!!

 

[Magenta]

NASA has succeeded in changing the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos. NASA crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, aka DART, into Dimorphos a few weeks ago to test one possible method of protecting Earth from a dangerous body on a collision course with our planet.
"This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said while confirming the asteroid redirect during a press conference Tuesday.
To be clear, this was only a test of one potential defense method, called "deflection by kinetic impactor," that doesn't require nuclear weapons or celebrities on a suicide mission a la popular Hollywood movies like 1998's Armageddon.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/...ts-asteroid-in-watershed-moment-for-humanity/

This means that Bruce Willis won’t be needed anymore.

One of the worst/most unrealistic save-the-world sci-fi movies I ever saw was The Core (<= link )

 

[persistent]

One of the worst/most unrealistic save-the-world sci-fi movies I ever saw was The Core (<= link
)

I liked Lost in Space. All the obsession with space travel is a waste for the most part. Any asteroid impact to me would be pre-ordained.

 

[Magenta]

I liked Lost in Space. All the obsession with space travel is a waste for the most part. Any asteroid impact to me would be pre-ordained.

My favorite sci-fi for the longest time was based on Carl Sagan's book "Contact."

 

[Eli1]

My favorite sci-fi for the longest time was based on Carl Sagan's book "Contact."

Oh yes I like that too.
‘The irony at the end is beautiful. A scientist who demands proof, asks people to believe her testimony without proof.
That’s a classic .

 

[Lynx]

NASA has succeeded in changing the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos. NASA crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, aka DART, into Dimorphos a few weeks ago to test one possible method of protecting Earth from a dangerous body on a collision course with our planet.
"This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said while confirming the asteroid redirect during a press conference Tuesday.
To be clear, this was only a test of one potential defense method, called "deflection by kinetic impactor," that doesn't require nuclear weapons or celebrities on a suicide mission a la popular Hollywood movies like 1998's Armageddon.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/...ts-asteroid-in-watershed-moment-for-humanity/

This means that Bruce Willis won’t be needed anymore.

Shoot. I had a list of stars I would like to vote for going on those missions.

 

[persistent]

My favorite sci-fi for the longest time was based on Carl Sagan's book "Contact."

Carl Sagan was obsessed with SETI...search for extraterrestrial intelligence.......Another big waste of money

 

[Magenta]

Oh yes I like that too.
‘The irony at the end is beautiful. A scientist who demands proof, asks people to believe her testimony without proof.
That’s a classic .

I thought it a great story all 'round: her persistence and determination against the odds of ever finding evidence of intelligent life "out there;" her arch nemesis Drummond always stealing the spotlight and her thunder only to get blasted in the attack by religious fanatics on the first attempt; John Hurt's character as the benefactor who funds Ellie when nobody else will, while he floats in space hoping to delay the inevitable ravages of the disease that eventually kills him; the man of the cloth without the cloth. LOL. And great acting, too I eventually read the book after seeing the movie multiple times... An aside here: one of the best biographies I ever read was on Carl Sagan

 

[Lynx]

They laugh now, but in ten years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to go work on space research.

 

[Eli1]

maybe we'll finally get our flying cars.

Here you go. Back to the Future 2 is finally a reality.

The ambulance of the future? Spaceship-like flying vehicle can zip through the air at 288mph - and could reach patients within eight minutes | Daily Mail Online

 

[ThereRoseaLamb]

Particle physics and something that goes over my head it's fascinating stuff
They're looking for something called the Higgs boson which they believe is the most base subatomic particle that basically holds the universe together

I think they need to stop straining their brains, we all know the universe is held together with duct tape.

 

[Cameron143]

I think they need to stop straining their brains, we all know the universe is held together with duct tape.

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I knew there was a mystical relationship between duct tape and the word of God.