The Mail vs Science!

Fflaps · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:41 pm

Oh noes! The Large Hadron Collider is back - and so are the morons!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ticle.html

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£26.7 million just to repair this what happens if something else goes wrong next time another £30 million I wish this whole project was abandoned it scares the hell out of me when was the public ever consulted about this considering we all live on this earth.
- Unnatural, Merseyside, 30/3/2010 12:41
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It seems like this wretched evil machine is doomed. Time to take a hint!
- Jane Rossello, Palma de Mallorca, 30/3/2010 11:38
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Evil machine? FFS...

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Do they REALLY know what they are doing?
- areallyangryoldun, Westmidlands, England, 30/3/2010 12:52
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Well, they probably have a slightly better idea what they're doing than you do.

Tom · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:17 pm

That evil, evil world-ending machine!

It's going to tear a hole in the fabric of spacetime, even though its most powerful collisions are currently 3.5 TeV, quite a way off matching the collisions of cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere that occur millions of times a second.

How many people with scientific training concocted this scare story?

I read on wikipedia it had three principal architects, none of whom work in high energy physics.

Tom · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:41 pm

As for A.N. Wilson, he is a prize twit, with his strange, anachronistic turn of phrase.

'all this hoo-ha'.

haha.

Jeremy · **Joined:** Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:37 am **Posts:** 426

Nothing terribly wrong about this story, except:

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Full power: An extreme ultraviolet image of the Sun shows different gas temperatures - reds are about 59,727C, blues and greens are about 999,727C

Note that "about 59,727C" is "about 60,000K" and "about 999,727C" is "about 1,000,000K". :lol:

Well, can't fault their maths, seems they can subtract 273 flawlessly!

Fflaps · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:27 pm

This thread should be renamed The Mail Readers vs Science.

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Why the sun light up earth but from the photos around the sun itself is dark?
- JS, Singapore, 23/4/2010 3:05

Because there's about as much atmosphere out there as there are brain cells in your head? Seriously, this is pretty basic physics.

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They look like computer-generated graphics to me. Is there any proof these images have ACTUALLY been taken from a satellite???
- Dr Garvan Ellison, Chesterfield, UK, 23/4/2010 07:58

Ever heard of filters? (as mentioned in the article) I bet he doesn't believe humans have been to the moon either because he wasn't there himself.

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Disruptive solar storms that can disrupt the weather on this planet - well there is a change fro the global warming enthusiasts!
- griptightthin, light years away, 22/4/2010 11:39

and then we have the usual religious nuts, including this amazingly perspicacious comment

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god god god
- jooooj, amman jordan, 23/4/2010

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:55 pm

Is it just me who pictures "jooooj" saying that while clasping the sides of a chair, staring straight ahead and rocking back and forth in their seat?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:26 pm

I think he was probably masturbating furiously...

storygirl · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:30 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

I think he was probably masturbating furiously...

Urgh,

are mail readers allowed to masturbate except over Hermione Granger and the 3 girls who get 5 A* grades at a levels every year?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:33 pm

I suspect the masturbatory fantasies of Mailies are wide, and more unsettling than we can ever imagine.

MisterMuncher · **Joined:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:19 am **Posts:** 925

"Dr Garvan Ellison, Chesterfield, UK, 23/4/2010 07:58"

Is a noted Nutcase. Has a blog over at http://garvanellison.blogspot.com/ which is compulsive, car-crash stuff.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:48 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

I suspect the masturbatory fantasies of Mailies are wide, and more unsettling than we can ever imagine.

The weekly Littlejohn columns are regularly stuck to the previous page around the area of Littlejohn's face (allegedly).

Jeremy · **Joined:** Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:37 am **Posts:** 426

MisterMuncher wrote:

"Dr Garvan Ellison, Chesterfield, UK, 23/4/2010 07:58"

Is a noted Nutcase. Has a blog over at http://garvanellison.blogspot.com/ which is compulsive, car-crash stuff.

I know, Poe's Law and all that, ... but I'm struggling to believe that this is meant seriously:

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As many of you know, I do not believe in the theory of satellite orbits, and WHAT IS MORE, have people forgotten the most BASIC lesson you learn as a child that you should NEVER look at the sun through binoculors since they will fry your eyes out!!! Same goes for a telescope, IF THERE WAS POWERFUL TELESCOPE UP THERE IN SPACE POINTING AT THE SUN THE ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM WOULD BE FRIED IN AN INSTANT!!!!!

Timbo · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:22 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

I suspect the masturbatory fantasies of Mailies are wide, and more unsettling than we can ever imagine.

I always imagined JOHN SMITH of BIRMINGHAM keeping a copy of 'Amistad' in amongst his porn collection :lol:

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3246

ahahahahahaha

fake, shirley

moonshien · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:44 pm

MisterMuncher wrote:

"Dr Garvan Ellison, Chesterfield, UK, 23/4/2010 07:58"

Is a noted Nutcase. Has a blog over at http://garvanellison.blogspot.com/ which is compulsive, car-crash stuff.

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THIS MAN [Clegg] MUST BE STOPPED. He might even be the Antichrist foretold in Scripture.

Fuck. Me.

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