Engadget has pointed out a small band of people even we can consider nerdy that decided to cut loose and
demo CERN's fancy new toy, the Large Hadron Collider. The resulting music video is certainly enough to "rock you in the head," and maybe even enough to cause a rip in space-time. Between Alpinekat and Dr Spatzo, I think my iPod just got a new entry.
That rocks! (Score:5, Interesting)
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Okay, the scientists dancing are tragically white, but the lyrics and graphics rock - even grade-schoolers would 'get it'. This should be teaching material.
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Re:That rocks! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:That rocks! (Score:5, Funny)
They should yell to that machine: "Will the real Higgs boson please stand up?"
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Basically if its in the exact right place and we get very lucky we could see it early next year. We could also win the lottery (to be fair the chances of seeing the Higgs straight away isnt as bad as that but its not good).
Signed,
A particle physicist who hopes the Higgs doesnt exist as that would be a disappointment.
Re:That rocks! (Score:5, Funny)
Eminem is dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!)
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Btw, one the best and most influential rappers is white. *cough*Eminem*cough*
Emin-who?
Sage Franics, Aesop Rock, Alias, Dose One, Scroobius Pip, El-P and dozens of others also happen to be white, and you cite freaking Eminem?
Oi.
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The lead rapper? You mean ALICE, right? The one that looks at collisions of lead ions.
Youtube links (Score:5, Informative)
This is not exactly new, but it's a fun little clip. Karma whoring or not, here's Youtube links in high quality [youtube.com] and standard quality [youtube.com].
Re:Youtube links (Score:4, Informative)
The LHC and CERN have a music club [web.cern.ch] e.g. The Les Horribles Cernettes [web.cern.ch], going back to 1992, sing "collider" [youtube.com]
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And in future news, a large contingent of nerds world wide cried out in joy as the Large Hadron Collider was turned on today.
Surprising to some people, they managed to create a miniature black hole. However, LHC lead scientists informed us that it only lasted for 16 seconds after being created inside RIAA headquaters, and completely dissapated after having absorbed it.
We were unable to reach the RIAA for comments.
An infinite waste of time (Score:5, Funny)
First Nerdcore, eh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:First Nerdcore, eh? (Score:4, Insightful)
At least this song gives a nice explanation of the subject at hand.
Most nerdcore just goes like "Oooh, let's include the word 'router', and base my song off it!", but doesn't educate in any way.
Therefor I think this song is what nerdcore should be about...
Better quality link (Score:4, Informative)
After YouTube started mangling the audio it made it pretty useless for this sort of thing. Try Vimeo instead http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471 [vimeo.com]
Public education (Score:3, Insightful)
Sesame Street for graduate students (Score:3, Interesting)
If they can use music to teach little kids the alphabet, why not use it to teach science? This kind of thing might actually make a difference in high school.
I need to stop playing WoW (Score:3, Funny)
I read the title.
"Why would nerds rap in the first place?"
They already aren't cool so maybe it was contamination of the water supply.
"And why would they be rapping about Light's Hope Chapel?"
LOL WAT?
And no, I will NOT turn in my geek badge.
How did they get him?? (Score:3, Funny)
You'd think Stephen Hawking would be really busy, but somehow they got him to do the opening and closing voiceover. Glad to see he's got time for some fun too.
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Yo, Kidz in da hood, "rap" is 3/4s of "crap".
Re:AAAh my ears! (Score:4, Insightful)
YouTube is. Somebody put LSD in the water supply in their programming department, is all I can figure.
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