Large Hardon Collider

[Chun Liroy]

I got my passport in today for my trip to the galapagos this summer. Can't wait. :D Awesome news Eli, Good luck!

[Lhyet]

Congratulations Eli!

[Eliseos]

Thanks dudes.

Also Leroy, I expect you to leave a down there.

[Chun Liroy]

Oh god, I think I'm going to print one out, tape it to a tree then take a picture and post it here when I get back lmao. Or make a mask. This is going to be my new goal.

[Eliseos]

Grow the beard and go bald, plenty of time to do that before the summer.

[Ferion]

That's awesome Eli, congrats man. One of my brother's old roommates was a computer engineer and he works for Lockheed Martin's defense division now. Every month or two he gets to go to a missile launch site to test his software so it definitely sounds like a crazy job.

[Eliseos]

Oh man that sounds awesome lol. It must be crazy seeing your work like that. I imagine the first time you see it you're shitting your pants hoping the thing doesn't blow up lol.

[Eliseos]

Also any biologists/chemists that can take a look at this paper? http://journals.lww.com/jcraniofacia...ADx20100319xMP

Someone posted a rather sensationalist article on Facebook and all I can really respond with is physics etc. Article is http://science.slashdot.org/story/11...Rot-Your-Bones

[Restrat]

Nothing sciencey about it, the took 24 each of men who used or didn't use a cell phone and keep it on their right hip and measured bone density of the hip.

[Mizango]

Since Max is shitting up this thread again I'm going to unshit it. I posted this on my FB this morning but Boeing offered me an interview with one of their entry-level software engineering positions. It's with their defense corp, so it will be something in the fighter/missile system development. Miz it's in St Louis, so if I somehow get this position we're going to need to meet there this summer. I am so fucking excited that I even get to interview with them, making pew pew machines has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid.

Yes! Congrats man! God I love St Louis, and consider it a date You see, we'll make you a Cards fan yet lol. Wow mam, I am so happy for you. St Louis is a great city and has a lot of history, that place is seriously my second home. Kick ass bro.

[Chun Liroy]

Grow the beard and go bald, plenty of time to do that before the summer.

I'm not white nor can I grow a beard Deffo making a mask and taking a pic with some finches.

[Eliseos]

Wow mam

Getting trolled by Miz Haha.

Also cards fans are pretty cool, they actually enjoy good baseball whether its their team making the plays or not. Used to go down there when I was a little kid since my mom had to travel for work a few times. Old Busch stadium was pretty awesome, I'd like to see the renovations.

Also yeah Restrat that sounds par for the course then. Thanks for looking into it. This armchair biologist that posted it seems to think earth's "electromagnetic field" blocks all of the radiation from the sun.

[Chun Liroy]

Also any biologists/chemists that can take a look at this paper? http://journals.lww.com/jcraniofacia...ADx20100319xMP

Someone posted a rather sensationalist article on Facebook and all I can really respond with is physics etc. Article is http://science.slashdot.org/story/11...Rot-Your-Bones

Yeah nothing really sciencey~ about it, I didn't look too closely, but it didn't seem that they measured anything outside of BMI in terms of diets and what they ate and their healthiness. As far as I know, there are many factors that can effect (affect? still dunno, I think it's affect) bone density. Sounds like they rounded up 24 people with cell phones, 24 people without cell phones (how was this possible), measured a few things, founded a correlation and now people are using it as evidence that it damages your hip, lol. I'm sure shiro will come in here and say I'm wrong though XD

[Restrat]

that's exactly what they did

[Woozie]

Congrats, Eli.

[Shiroikage]

gonna read it, but the journal has a whopping .812 impact factor

[Tyche]

Seen this story makes it's way across my facebook. Not really worth it's own thread, but figured it would be interesting to post here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...skys-the-limit

For 12-year old astrophysics prodigy, the sky’s the limit

By Zachary Roth

In some ways, Jacob Barnett is just like any other 12-year-old kid. He plays Guitar Hero, shoots hoops with his friends, and has a platonic girlfriend.
But in other ways, he's a little different. Jake, who has an IQ of 170, began solving 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles at the age of 3, not long after he'd been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. A few years later, he taught himself calculus, algebra, and geometry in two weeks. By 8, he had left high school, and is currently taking college-level advanced astrophysics classes—while tutoring his older classmates. And he's being recruited for a paid researcher job by Indiana University.


Now, he's at work on a theory that challenges the Big Bang—the prevailing explanation among scientists for how the universe came about. It's not clear how developed it is, but experts say he's asking the right questions.
"The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics," Scott Tremaine of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies—where Einstein (pictured) himself worked—wrote in an email to Jake's family. "Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize."


It's not clear where Jake got his gifts from. "Whenever I try talking about math with anyone in my family," he told the Indianapolis Star, "they just stare blankly."
But his parents encouraged his interests from the start. Once, they took him to the planetarium at Butler University. "We were in the crowd, just sitting, listening to this guy ask the crowd if anyone knew why the moons going around Mars were potato-shaped and not round," Jake's mother, Kristine Barnett, told the Star. "Jacob raised his hand and said, 'Excuse me, but what are the sizes of the moons around Mars?' "
After the lecturer answered, said Kristine, "Jacob looked at him and said the gravity of the planet ... is so large that (the moon's) gravity would not be able to pull it into a round shape."
"That entire building ... everyone was just looking at him, like, 'Who is this 3-year-old?'"

Includes a cringe inducing video by the kid's mother who is obviously whoring out her child for attention. Reading the comments though, seems the kid is really nice.

Coincidentally, someone posted this in the youtube thread 5 minutes after I posted this story.

[foopy]

Seen this story makes it's way across my facebook. Not really worth it's own thread, but figured it would be interesting to post here.

psssh, i posted this four days ago in this thread.

[Chun Liroy]

Max had a kid? LOL

[Pirian]

Max had a kid? LOL

No, this kid actually knows what he's talking about