h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Strictly Come Berlusconi:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14989646

Drone War:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15012962

Greenfinch decline by 35%:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14974236

Muffins blamed for U.S. annual budget deficit in excess of 1.4 trillion dollars:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14997843

Troy Davis execution goes ahead despite serious doubts about his guilt

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/troy-davis-execution-last-words

Federal Reserve gave a stark warning about the state of the US
economy and announced ... Operation Twist:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15014843

Let's hope they don't end up with a busted flush ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15012517

Cutlre minster reduced to name calling on Twitter.

The Beeb and the UTV have starred out the "offensive" term, and I couldn't work out what it was. But thanks to Slugger O'Toole I know now that she called him a "g o b s h i t e"

she called him a "g o b s h i t e"

now the questions the courts have to weigh upo is,

is he in fact a gobshite????

The Pioneer Anomaly turned out to be a bit of a tempest in a teacup. However now researchers at CERN claim to have detected neutrinos moving at faster-than-light speeds. At a distance of 730 km, they got to their destination 60 nanoseconds faster than they should have if they were moving at C. For subatomic physics, 60 nanoseconds is quite a long time. This could be groundbreaking.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/absolute-speed-barrier-broken-cern-claims-neutrinos-clocked-traveling-faster-than-light/2011/09/22/gIQA5Sn9nK_story.html

>>...now researchers at CERN claim to have detected neutrinos moving
at faster-than-light speeds.<<

... there are some that say this might be a cover-up to the suggestion that
the rationale for building the LHC may have been built on a false premise:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14948730

>> This could be groundbreaking. <<

Let's just hope it isn't earth shattering.

As tarantoes links says, Scientists really
have no idea what they are doing. Like kids
with a box of bullets and a hammer.

~jwf~

If scientists stuck only to things that were safe and known we wouldn't even have got as far as banging the rocks together.

Tarantoes - back from vacation
<... there are some that say this might be a cover-up to the suggestion that
the rationale for building the LHC may have been built on a false premise: >

Bull-hooks...they have released the results prior to peer review because the results fly in the face of physics and they want to get the results out ASAP to see if any other scientists can shoot their results down in flames.

This is showing science at it's best by showing scientists asking other scientists to critique the results and see if they've screwed up. And if they have they'll be glad to see that someone has spotted whatever calibration error or whatever has occurred because that is science...but of course science haters and morons will jumpon it as an example to show that science gets things wrong and can not be trusted when it will show the exact opposite.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/neutrinos.png

3Dots >>but of course science haters and morons <<

Your arguments are rather poor (ad homs which seems quite typical).
What makes you think the post had anything to do with science
hating and morons?

>>..of course science haters and morons will jump on it
as an example to show that science gets things wrong and
can not be trusted when it will show the exact opposite. <<

I don't hate science and I have great sympathy for morons,
especially those who believe such incredulities as:
"it will show the exact opposite".

That's straight out of the Catechism of Science isn't it.
Article 41 I believe.
Right after, "We are always rechecking our data just in case.
So don't blame us if we open a fissure into another dimension.
PS, Sorry about all the mercury, lead and radiation but we
did it in the name of Holy Science, the all-too-eager-to-be-
fallible god of morons with matches and hammers."


~jwf~

jwf, why do you equate trust in science with worship of it?

because he is stiring it to see what floats to the top