The Large Hadron Collider is currently under construction, and at around $10 billion dollars, it will be the largest particle accelerator in the world. Basically, its one of the largest machines in the world, which will try to discover really small particles, that might not even exist! Case and point of the comic.
You know what, I'm not gonna take this anymore, unless its genuinely funny, im just going to bury xkcd every time. If they're not funny, don't submit them. Also, I'm not going to digg a story where the submitter asks to be on the front page in their description. F that.
I wonder if the Death Star laser could be programmed or changed, instead of annihilating an entire planet, it could shoot radiation or something else. Kind of a random thought.
At my school (J. Frank Dobie in Houston, TX), three physics students planned on applying for a competition to visit CERN April 8 and broadcast what they were doing there. We won (I was one of these students). However, we got screwed and they decided to send 3 Dobie News kids even though neither are taking advanced physics courses. It was the doing of the news teacher. He had gone to the principal behind everyone's back. Now in about a week me and two other deserving physics students are going to miss out on the only opening to visit CERN before it is locked down many months for research. Injustice at its worst.
haha- people always hate things once they become popular- why don't ya'll quit hating and just enjoy the comic? No, not every xkcd episode is going to be a classic- but there's a gem every now and then
so two guys are doing a test on a giant particle collider and the test doesn't go according to plan in that they failed to witness a massive scalar elementary particle; so in liue of this, they want to disassemble a very large and very complex (as well as expensive) machine to play with a proton stream that would cause pigeons to suffer from high static electricity. In tearing it a part one of the guys says he gives cancer to an inanimate object. I just don't get it.
I think it's safe to say that we've gotten to the point on digg where everybody who wants to just goes to xkcd.com every MWF without digg having to prompt them.