Honestly, I can't think of this as anything other as a wind-up.
This is the kind of thing (pre-internets and the rampant spread of memes*) we used to wind up our tutors about: one of my old mates got sent out of one tutorial class because he repeatedly brought up the issue of Cold Fussion: "yeah," he said, all the time,"but what *if* it's true?!" - he didn't believe it was true but just wanted to push the guy, and he liked to posit his belief in Cold Fusion in terms of...well, "yeah, but what IF it is true?[despite facts to the contrary]" like a thankless child that wanted his Mum or Dad to to disprove Santa Claus. The guy got really bent out of shape (to conform to north-amrican lingo) and eventually told him to fuck off.
[The "guy" my mate was talking to was one of the folks that designed the precursor to this detector - my "alma mater" had a big hand in designing the hardware at CERN, unbelievably talented, down tn earth people and my biggest regret in my life that I did not make the team:-( **]
*Long for Old Hat **I ended up in optoelectronics, the law/ish !
I didn't watch it all the way through; I get enough of craziness at work. What I heard sounded like the "bizarre delusions" of schizophrenia. (Though he's a bit too structured in his reasoning to have full out schizophrenia.)
My personal favourite line was that it's impossible to turn in space, which is why satellites have to use the gravity of other planets to turn in space.
Because it's impossible to walk your dog, which is why people walk their dogs WITH LEASHES!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-08 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-10 04:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-08 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-08 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 12:49 am (UTC)....
.. Unforeseen consequences.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 03:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 12:04 am (UTC)Honestly, I can't think of this as anything other as a wind-up.
This is the kind of thing (pre-internets and the rampant spread of memes*) we used to wind up our tutors about:
one of my old mates got sent out of one tutorial class because he repeatedly brought up the issue of Cold Fussion: "yeah," he said, all the time,"but what *if* it's true?!" - he didn't believe it was true but just wanted to push the guy, and he liked to posit his belief in Cold Fusion in terms of...well, "yeah, but what IF it is true?[despite facts to the contrary]" like a thankless child that wanted his Mum or Dad to to disprove Santa Claus. The guy got really bent out of shape (to conform to north-amrican lingo) and eventually told him to fuck off.
[The "guy" my mate was talking to was one of the folks that designed the precursor to this detector - my "alma mater" had a big hand in designing the hardware at CERN, unbelievably talented, down tn earth people and my biggest regret in my life that I did not make the team:-( **]
*Long for Old Hat
**I ended up in optoelectronics, the law/ish !
(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 07:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 03:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 12:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 06:34 pm (UTC)Because it's impossible to walk your dog, which is why people walk their dogs WITH LEASHES!
(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-09 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-10 06:11 am (UTC)Sounds like this guy's played too much Doom. :o