Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University, quoted in Britain’s Daily Telegraph, says that “Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a t—.”
I’d hate to die when they switch it on next week without ever having figured out what t-word the professor deployed. It is therefore necessary to have a poll.
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C’mon, its gotta be twat, due to it’s definition. Brits sort of have an aversion for words of the VJJ. Also can I add, if the the world is to end by science. The people in power can at least answer my 3 science questions before I die. The 1st 2 sort of science, science fiction. Give me the beans on BSG and LOST before Wednesday. And just admit it, we are using reverse alien technology in our everyday lives.
It’s obviously “twat.” That’s the only four-letter T-word that would almost universally get censored in the media.
It’s obviously twat – but come on, the Brits LOVE using other various alternatives for that word. They don’t have nearly the aversion to cunt that we do over here in North America.
My vote is for “taxi.”
They didn’t censor it for offensiveness, they censored it because that’s a really dumb thing for a scientist to say.
there’s also ‘tits’ but he would say “are t—” instead of “is a t—”
Also, my delightfully random writein: Tyke.
Troll?
Televangelist?
Toss. Duh.
Look guys, when the Y2K bug reveals itself in this setup we’ll all be farked!!!!
That is, if we were idiots.
hey, it could have easily been “Tard”
It’s ‘twat’: they didn’t censor it originally. http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/6234/telegraphxw5.png
The issue is about credibility, I argue CERN’s credibility is lacking.
CERN directs its own scientists to not discuss risk probabilities and arrogantly denigrates the credibility of the opposition.
Who are some of the more notable concerned scientists?
Visiting professor of Physics Dr. Rossler is famous for his contributions to Chaos theory and founding of Endophysics.
Senior Physics PHD Dr. Rainer Plaga also wrote a paper concluding CERN has failed to prove safety. Dr. Plaga proposes CERN SLOW DOWN and implement feasible risk reduction methods.
Former cosmic ray researcher, California math champion and Nuclear Safety Officer Walter L. Wagner discovered flaws with CERN’s safety arguments. He calculates stable strange matter creation (particularly from Lead Lead collisions) and dangerous micro black hole creation has not been excluded and might as likely prove catastrophic.
Am I concerned. Yes.
Do I think CERN is arrogant, reckless and misrepresents safety. Yes.
LHCFacts.org
turn it on and shut ‘em all up
Brief history of scientific hubris:
1. Victor Frankenstein
1. Nobel
2. Oppenheimer
3. Jurassic park
The Poetry of John Keat’s is particularly apropos
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
And destroy the universe in wantoness merry
Cox versus the twats – that is a long running argument
…and fertile ground for punning
If we all die, so what? Nobody gains an unfair advantage. It’ll be instant. No more having to work, pay bills you can ill afford in this economic climate, deal with the repercussions of climate change. It’ll piss off the bizarro Rapture-seeking right-wing Xians.
In my current mood, it’s a win/win/win/win/win/win situation. Yay! Collide me some hadrons, and supersize them!
Fry: Don’t cry, Bender. No one really knows what happens in a black hole. She could still be alive in another dimension somewhere. Right, professor?
Farnsworth: Oh, sure. Absolutely.
[Whispers to Zoidberg] Not a chance.
Lord H, two of your examples are fictional, I have no idea why Nobel is on the list, and Oppenheimer was one of a team of many.
tard?
I love the way that headline can be read two ways. One more sinister and interesting.
[quote]Visiting professor of Physics Dr. Rossler is famous for his contributions to Chaos theory and founding of Endophysics.
Senior Physics PHD Dr. Rainer Plaga also wrote a paper concluding CERN has failed to prove safety. Dr. Plaga proposes CERN SLOW DOWN and implement feasible risk reduction methods.
Former cosmic ray researcher, California math champion and Nuclear Safety Officer Walter L. Wagner
[/quote]
When you start quoting titles like “visiting professor of” without an institution after it, you’re not exactly giving your argument a lot of authority (especially for those of us who know that if the title someone prefers to go by is “visiting professor,” that means he doesn’t have a permanent appointment anywhere). When you say “Senior [...] PhD,” then I know you don’t understand what a PhD is. And when you credential someone as “California math champion” (isn’t that something for middle school students, like a spelling bee? Because if the winner of the California spelling bee argues in favor of the Baconian hypothesis, that’s not going to win a lot of support) and “Nuclear Safety Officer” (“master’s degree: optional,” and in nuclear engineering, not particle physics), I’m pretty certain that the folks you’re using for your argumentum ad verecundiam don’t have a whole hell of a lot of credibility.
The problem is they’re ignoring the real threat: Candlejack. If something isn’t do
#15, Alfred Nobel is, of course, on this list because he invented dynamite and a number of other armaments.
Clearly, not in any way similar to the LHC, but rather the possibility for dispassionate science to do unforeseen harm.
Ok, I’ll admit it. I’ve been sowing the seeds of about the LHC with my uninformed neighbors, much to my amusement. Those dumb hipster doofuses are now mildly apprehensive that the world will end at 12:30 MDT on Tuesday night. My only regret is that I didn’t start doing it sooner so they could oragnize protests against the voodoo science that’s housed 300 feet below switzerland.
ergg that’s why you don’t post without reading what you’ve typed and while you’re on the phone at work. Try this again
Ok, I’ll admit it. I’ve been sowing the seeds of concern about the LHC to my uninformed neighbors, much to my amusement. Those dumb hipster doofuses are now mildly apprehensive that the world will end at 12:30 MDT on Tuesday night. My only regret is that I didn’t start doing it sooner so that they could oragnize protests against the voodoo science machine that’s housed 300 feet below switzerland.
It’s really made my week. I’m a bad person.
On Wednesday, we will all wake up dead!