We did it!

[Spawn's dad]

now can someone explain it?

 

 

CERN, Switzerland (CNN) -- Scientists Wednesday applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.

[JUDE]

Not the Gary and MChris finally got it on thread I was expecting.

[austrya]

Not the Gary and MChris finally got it on thread I was expecting.

 

 

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

now can someone explain it?

 

 

CERN, Switzerland (CNN) -- Scientists Wednesday applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.

 

 

Just remember...if it weren't for jealousy and shortsightedness, the SSC would be in operation in the Dallas area today.

 

During the design and the first construction stage, a heated debate ensued about the high cost of the project. In 1987, Congress was told the project could be completed for $4.4 billion, but by 1993 the cost projection exceeded $12 billion. An especially recurrent argument was the contrast with NASA's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), which was of similar amount.[citation needed] Critics of the project argued that the US could not afford both of them.

 

The project was canceled by Congress in 1993. Many factors contributed to the shutdown of the project, although different parties disagree on which contributed the most. They include rising cost estimates, poor management by physicists and Department of Energy officials, the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union, belief that many smaller scientific experiments of equal merit could be funded for the same cost, Congress's desire to generally reduce spending, and the reluctance of Texas Governor Ann Richards [1] and President Bill Clinton, both Democrats, to support a project begun during the administrations of Richards's Republican predecessor, Bill Clements, and Clinton's Republican predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. However, in 1993, Clinton attempted to prevent the cancellation by requesting that Congress continue "to support this important and challenging effort" through completion because "abandoning the SSC at this point would signal that the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science..." [2]

 

The closing of the SSC held drastic ramifications for the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and resulted in a mild recession made most evident in those parts of Dallas which lay south of the Trinity River.[3] At the time the project was cancelled, 22.5 km (14 miles) of tunnel and 17 shafts to the surface were already dug and nearly two billion dollars had already been spent on the massive facility.[4]

[austrya]

Thanks to the title of this thread, I have the song from Dora the Explorer stuck in my head...

[Good Old Neon]

From what I gather, these so called scientists are shooting particles at each other really, really fast, the point being, to create some sort of black hole or cosmic vortex of some sort or another that will suck us and the rest of the known universe into it. It sounds pretty incredible

[Spawn's dad]

From what I gather, these so called scientists are shooting particles at each other really, really fast

 

kids in my neighborhood run around shooting rubber pellet guns at one another. is this something like that?

[cryptique]

kids in my neighborhood run around shooting rubber pellet guns at one another. is this something like that?

Yes.

[Spawn's dad]

funny, here I thought they were idiots and it turns out they were just advancing science.

[Good Old Neon]

kids in my neighborhood run around shooting rubber pellet guns at one another. is this something like that?

 

Yes, it is, it most definitely is. And it

[Spawn's dad]

or the whole 'don't stand in your neighbor's driveway or he may run you over' thingamajigy from that....

 

 

 

oh wait

[Good Old Neon]

or the whole 'don't stand in your neighbor's driveway or he may run you over' thingamajigy from that....

 

 

 

oh wait

 

 

I bet that some bitch was pretty much beg'n for it though, waddnt he?

[OOO]

I know its a rap, but this video explains pretty well and accurately what they are trying to figure out:

 

http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471