Doomed!
Nige
Asteriod that might hit earth....
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Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Nige" <de...@btinternet.com>
saying something like:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8435829.stm
>
>Asteriod that might hit earth....
Is this Groundhog Day?
Two years ago there was one that passed within 30K of the Earth.
A miss is as good as a shag round the back of the clubhouse.
The Older Gentleman
Isn't that the one that nobody spotted until it had been and gone? IMHO,
is astronomical terms, a one in 45k chance of being blown to hell and
breakfast is not nice.
Paging Blaney.
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Tosspot
What again!
Buzby
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8435829.stm
>
> Asteriod that might hit earth....
Where's Bruce Willis when you need him . . . . .
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Buzby
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot"
Grimly Curmudgeon
Older Gentleman) saying something like:
>> Two years ago there was one that passed within 30K of the Earth.
>> A miss is as good as a shag round the back of the clubhouse.
>
>Isn't that the one that nobody spotted until it had been and gone?
Iirc, that's it.
Whoosh, and wtf was that!
darsy
>Nige wrote:
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8435829.stm
>>
>> Asteriod that might hit earth....
>
>Where's Bruce Willis when you need him . . . . .
YM Col. Jack O'Neill for this one...
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Beav
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I'll bet you a hundred grand it misses.
Piano's or pounds, I don't mind.
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ian field
"Beav" <beavis....@ntlwoxorld.com> wrote in message
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> "Nige" <de...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8435829.stm
>>
>> Asteriod that might hit earth....
>
> I'll bet you a hundred grand it misses.
It'll get sucked into the black hole created by the hadron collider.
Tosspot
Not at the moment, they didn't pay the leccy bill and it's been turned off.
Dr Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <bKKdnWcaJMTIUqHW...@giganews.com>:
Had to give some of the experts-on-call a month off is all. We're
going to run far more than planned over winter to try to claw back some of
the delay. Expect new collisions mid- to late-February (there's a certain
amount of maintenance needs to be done, too). 50/50 for Higgs by December.
50/50 that it's us and not Atlas...
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Tosspot
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:20:36 +0000, Tosspot <Frank...@esa.int>
> wrote in <bKKdnWcaJMTIUqHW...@giganews.com>:
<snip>
>> Not at the moment, they didn't pay the leccy bill and it's been turned off.
>
> Had to give some of the experts-on-call a month off is all. We're
> going to run far more than planned over winter to try to claw back some of
> the delay. Expect new collisions mid- to late-February (there's a certain
> amount of maintenance needs to be done, too). 50/50 for Higgs by December.
> 50/50 that it's us and not Atlas...
No rivalry there then!
I saw Brian Cox at the RI before Xmas, and he was saying we will find
the Higgs Boson in 2010. I don't think he has a good track record on
these things though :(
Dr Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <TsOdnUr3Xd9Kd6DW...@giganews.com>:
> Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:20:36 +0000, Tosspot <Frank...@esa.int>
>> wrote in <bKKdnWcaJMTIUqHW...@giganews.com>:
><snip>
>>> Not at the moment, they didn't pay the leccy bill and it's been turned off.
>> Had to give some of the experts-on-call a month off is all. We're
>> going to run far more than planned over winter to try to claw back some of
>> the delay. Expect new collisions mid- to late-February (there's a certain
>> amount of maintenance needs to be done, too). 50/50 for Higgs by December.
>> 50/50 that it's us and not Atlas...
> No rivalry there then!
Oh, no, not at all[1].
> I saw Brian Cox at the RI before Xmas, and he was saying we will find
> the Higgs Boson in 2010. I don't think he has a good track record on
> these things though :(
I've not met the guy in person yet, tho' I hear that talk was
pretty good. Someone mentioned once seeing him at the CERN restaurant
(a massively overcrowded place) and nearly not recognising him, because
he wasn't surrounded by a TV crew...
[1] The rivalry is by design. Two teams with slightly different technology,
slightly different approaches. Both should be successful, but if one screws
up the other one gets it. The chances of _both_ screwing up are much less.
The chances of *LHC* screwing up, we already know...
Beav
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If they ever get the thing working, then possibly. But.....
Beav
"Tosspot" <Frank...@esa.int> wrote in message
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He's a shit actor too.
Beav
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Paradoxically, neither would we.
Beav
"Cab" <my_email_addre...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Beav wrote:
>
>> > Asteriod that might hit earth....
>>
>> I'll bet you a hundred grand it misses.
>>
>> Piano's or pounds, I don't mind.
>
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. (Dylan)
sweller
> > I saw Brian Cox at the RI before Xmas, and he was saying we will find
> > the Higgs Boson in 2010. I don't think he has a good track record
> > on these things though :(
>
> He's a shit actor too.
I quite liked The Escapist.
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Beav
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I was just being a cunt. I quite liked him in that film too, although the
film iteslf was a but... bleurgh.