Professor Brian Cox and Sir David King on Newsnight
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Uploaded by giagirl on Sep 12, 2008
Broadcast the night of the Large Hadron Collider switch on, Professor Brian Cox explains to Jeremy Paxman and Sir David King (the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science) why curiosity-driven scientific research is of vital importance for the future of humanity.
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was it not at CERN where Sir Tim Burners-Lee (and a few others) invented the World-Wide Web? Sir David King would most likely label that invention useless as well.
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Is someone hoovering in the background?
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president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.... I don't want to live in this world anymore
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EVERY FUCKING THING WAS INVENTED AT CERN SN.
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Oh my "god" politicians make me rage. Fuck you, stop spending money on war and bullshit and give MORE money to science. Stupid fucktards
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did he just say the experiments at CERN aren't useful :o
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It really annoys me on these programs, especially Newsnight that they cut off the discussion just as it's getting interesting and into it.
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ahm.. HTML was invented at Cern..
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@gugutka1 'its quite likely that planet's construction and inner forces are responsible for gravity'
Gravity isn't about inner forces per say, but the mass of an object. The greater the mass of an object, the more it bends the fabric of space and time, which pulls on objects of lesser mass.
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@eleguaaugele yes i think that one air craft carrier costs the same, or even more.
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CERN spending vs. other, "more useful" science spending is a false dichotomy. CERN's $10B cost is peanuts to what is currently being spent by the US alone on its multiple wars. They could build one CERN per month if they only pulled out of their stupid military excursions. The "bailout" Wall street got from the US government was enough to pay for 80 CERNS, or, perhaps 80 cures for cancer or AIDS. One should get some perspective on the real numbers before criticizing ANY science spending.
eleguaaugele 3 months ago 40
Money well spend? 4.4 billion£ for the LHC. Lets put things in perspective first. By the end of 2008, the U.S. had spent approximately $900 billion in direct costs on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Was that money well spent?
Science gets the scraps while the big money goes into new tanks and bombs. The US military budget for 2010 was $663.8 billion! We humans need to take a good look at what we are spending money on.
Yes we humans can afford the Hadron Collider, hurrah for Brian Cox!
FrozenPetrolPie 4 months ago 31