"When the american's spent a gazzilion dollars inventing a ball pen that could write in space, while the russians brought a pencil, it's a waste of money;P"
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Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?
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In a recent vlogbrothers video, hank talked about the differences between decreasing suck and increasing awesome and how space exploration should be seen as increasing awesome rather than wasting…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Eystein, Feb 11, 2011.
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Abreo replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"When it doesn't work, or when it starts costing more money than it's work and doesn't produce any progress towards a scientific success."
Katie Peterson replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"But when does something become a waste of money?"
Pardeep Dhaliwal replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"Besides, a failed scientific venture is never a waste of money because it contributes to an eventual scientific success. Otherwise, we would have declared the first attempts at getting into space a waste of money, and never tried it again."
Eystein, replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"I suppose not, but the amount of money spent on it would make a lot of descepticons accusing it of such. But fat chance the money had been spent on feeding starving children anyway, so I agree with you ;P"
Abreo replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"From my understanding it's not a failure, and it did what it was supposed to do minus the breaking down several times part. It's still in use though, and if they haven't abandoned it then I assume they're still gathering data,…"
Katie Peterson replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"Oh yeah! I for got about the Higg's Boson. They're trying to find the chemical equation for gravity or something. I thought it was all really interesting but then I just stopped hearing anything about it.
But if it didn't work,…"
Eystein, replied to Katie Peterson's discussion Large Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?"It was supposed to find some elementary particle wasn't it, the HIgg's boson? And help scientist's failtest their theories on the conditions in the early universe and more. I'm not sure... It's about gaining knowledge about…"
Katie Peterson posted a discussionLarge Hadron Collider a Large Waste of Money?
In a recent vlogbrothers video, hank talked about the differences between decreasing suck and increasing awesome and how space exploration should be seen as increasing awesome rather than wasting money that could be spent decreasing suck. I personally agree and my friend Kennedy does as well. In or discussion about space telescopes and the like we mentioned the Large Hadron Collider (not saying the hadron collider has anything to do with space telescopes but we were talking science in…See More
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