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- crapuccino, on 12/09/2008, -1/+58Stopped reading at page 1.
The LHC is a scientific instrument not a scientific discovery.
List fail.
I think I'll stick to reading a reputable publication like cracked - Drycz, on 12/08/2008, -4/+27I stopped reading after they compared China pulling off the Olympics to them landing on the moon by 2020.
- TheEngineer2008, on 12/09/2008, -0/+20Two discoveries:
1. They didn't make a black hole large enough to swallow the planet
2. Helium leaks are expensive to fix :-) - PhAndrew, on 12/09/2008, -0/+17This is if you do not want to go through the whole slideshow.
1) Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
2) The North Pole - of Mars
3) Creating Life
4) China Soars into Space
5) More Gorillas in the Must
6) Brave New Worlds
7) The Power over Invisibility
8) Cenozoic Park?
9) Can you spell science?
10) First family - Ansible, on 12/09/2008, -0/+14The writers of the article probably discovered the LHC this year, so I guess its a scientific discovery for them.
- kidwithsword, on 12/09/2008, -0/+11I thought we made the LHC. I didn't know we discovered it.
- vertigo242, on 12/08/2008, -1/+12I personally support the Wholly Mammoth Theme Park.
And let me be the first: "SHOOOOO-TAHHH!" - aoisenshi, on 12/09/2008, -1/+10The title initially made it sound like they just discovered this huge thing called the LHC lying around somewhere.
- vinceislegend, on 12/09/2008, -1/+9So, someone submitted the Times' many Top 10 Lists earlier today, and you picked one of them and submitted that?
No. Buried. - replaysMike, on 12/08/2008, -1/+9don't forget the left side of Uranus.
- Iceman4, on 12/09/2008, -0/+8#3.: "Step two is to boot up that DNA programming in a living bacterium to see if it takes charge of the organism. That's next on Venter's agenda — and he has little doubt it will work."
...Goes and grabs the shotgun - Dysarthria, on 12/09/2008, -0/+7Actually, none of these things are scientific discoveries, except for #6.
- mmittimm, on 12/09/2008, -1/+8Brace yourselves for an army of lazy diggers whining about having to click their mouse 10 times.
- Cannon13, on 12/09/2008, -2/+9If I recall, they turned the LHC on and it promptly broke. Some discovery.
- coopaloop, on 12/08/2008, -2/+8Dugg for artificially creating life.
- TheJimid, on 12/09/2008, -0/+6Dugg for everything that wasn't Kanye West
- FishHammer, on 12/09/2008, -1/+6I read "Good news!" in the voice of the Professor then I closed the page because I realized I didn't want to actually read the article.
- Robjayne, on 12/09/2008, -1/+6Life was not created it was altered or modified.
- ezmac, on 12/09/2008, -0/+51. Top 10 _________ of 2008. The _______ and 9 other ________ of the year
2. Fill in the blanks
3. ???
4. Profit - headband, on 12/09/2008, -0/+5I appreciate the effort but half of the titles they chose are less than descriptive of what it actually is
- EggAndMuffin, on 12/09/2008, -1/+6Note to self:
Just because a big named TIME has the "Top 10" lists doesn't mean they are good.
One example:
http://digg.com/movies/Top_10_Movies_of_2008_2 - jkendal4, on 12/09/2008, -0/+4so i guess #9 is telling us that only 1/4 of these comments come from people who know what the hell they are talking about
- FI5HERMAN, on 12/09/2008, -0/+4There are some places that need to be swallowed by a Black Hole !!!
- inactive, on 12/09/2008, -0/+4I don't think anyone else misheard him saying "Shoot her".
- Yeyui, on 12/09/2008, -0/+4TIME science writers are so egocentric that they think "science story" (what they do) = "scientific discovery" (what awesomely successful scientists do).
- fakeguy, on 12/09/2008, -1/+4I said this on the last TIME.com submission and I'll say it again:
10 pages??? ***** you TIME.com. - elipabst, on 12/09/2008, -0/+3You make it sound like he's some kind of charitable organization or something. You know why he created an artificial organism? Because they wanted to define the smallest possible viable organism in order to start putting in genes to make things like biofuels. Extra genes just wastes energy and makes your biofuel bug less efficient.
He also certainly deserves to have his name on it, he's been talking about doing it for a long time and has been his main project since the Celera days. In fact, not only is his name on the paper, but it's also *in* the organism...they included several short stretches of DNA, one of which translates to the amino acid sequence CRAIGVENTER.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/venter- ... - Disgod, on 12/09/2008, -1/+4Technically the LHC hasn't discovered anything yet, but is still a very cool piece of technology.
- inactive, on 12/09/2008, -2/+5I guess Time editors are not very scientifically literate.
- BlakeEM, on 12/09/2008, -0/+3Where is the memristor? It's a huge discovery... This list is lame.
- Grok22, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2J. Craig Venter, the geneticist talked about on page 3 visited my school on a speaking tour. I was not able to attend due to class. . . lame
- esc27, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2How is #6 not #1? I would think the first visual 'picture' of an extrasolar plant far more significant than a large but broken particle accelerator, (not to mention the re-re-rediscovery of water on Mars.)
- TFTanner, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2Could I get a link to the top 10 top 10 pages of 2008 to save me some time?
- trollick, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2OMG! They discovered Large Hadron Collider!
- siandt, on 12/09/2008, -2/+4After all these articles, I still read that as Large Hardon Collider.
- melonhedd, on 12/09/2008, -1/+3The LHC is a "discovery"?
- CaptHuggyFace, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2Boy, won't they feel sheepish when my cold fusion device is unveiled tomorrow. Take that Chinese NASA!!
- headband, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2why is the memristor not on there
- OldDrtySapper, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2LoL @ time they really have no idea what they are doing. ppl already ripped on the LHC thing and i didnt know we just discovered mars thats amazing.
- ashgtx, on 12/09/2008, -1/+3ten ***** pages...ten...
- cogitocogito, on 12/09/2008, -0/+2If one were to stumble upon a very tiny hedron collider, it would certainly be a notable discovery. But a large one seems hard to miss.
- NYankee2003, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2great list, until i got to Kayne. then i threw up a little bit in my mouth. i'm not kidding. i was hoping it was a mistake and then noticed that it was. the 'next' button just brings you top 'top songs', thank god... just when you thought you could rely on time.com to master the art of the web design... they'll be the next chicago tribune for this.
- itcoll, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2why can they place everything in one single page ?
- NixiePixel, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2#3 is scary, actually.
- rolan1bp, on 12/11/2008, -0/+1Dugg for correcting me.
- tehphoberer, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1thank you
- Scaryclouds, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1That is a sign you've got the gay. You should see a doctor.
- trollick, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1I pointed that out right after the discovery. So, shut up!
- andyd273, on 12/09/2008, -0/+1I agree.
Not only is the LHC not a scientific discovery, AFAIK I don't think they've even discovered anything new with it.
This puts the rest of the list in such a horrible light that I'm not even going to try to read the article... -
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