Mar 19

icon_earth.gifGeekery Alert!

The which is being constructed across the borders of Switzerland and France is one big-ass project (known as a BAP around our house). You can . Here’s just a nibble:

The nearly 100 million channels of data streaming from each of the two largest detectors would fill 100,000 CDs every second, enough to produce a stack to the moon in six months.

Hey, I warned you…

Comments on this Entry:

(innerredneckexposed on
Mar 19, 2008 1:27 PM)

don’t know where else to put this but the sixth paragraph is a wonderful piece of writing. Really the whole article is.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,2265446,00.html

(MelGX on
Mar 19, 2008 1:39 PM)

More pop than geek, the latest Time Magazine features the big ass title “Ten ideas that are changing the world”. Favorite is #7.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine

#1 Common Wealth
National interests aren’t what they used to be. Our survival requires global solutions

#2 The End of Customer Service
With self-serve technology, you’ll never have to see a clerk again

#3 The Post-Movie-Star Era
Get ready for more films in which the leading man is not “he” but “who?”

#4 Reverse Radicalism
Want to stop terrorism? Start talking to terrorists who stop themselves

#5 Kitchen Chemistry
Why the squishy art of cooking is giving way to cold, hard science

#6 Geoengineering
Messing with nature caused global warming. Messing with it more might fix it

#7 Synthetic Authenticity
Jaded buyers love ‘real’ products–or at least ones that fake it well

#8 The New Austerity
Get ready for something truly unheard of: an era of living within our means

#9 Mandatory Health
Bosses are trying to force their employees to live better. Yep, it’s legal

#10 Re-Judaizing Jesus
Scholars are now rereading the Gospels through the eyes of a Jew: Jesus

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