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Is this a dupe?
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Yo, Kidz in da hood, "rap" is 3/4s of "crap".
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examples here [slashdot.org] and here
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"Hey, baby. Wanna see my heavy particles?"
"Hey, no, how you doin? Wanna see my large hadron collider?"
"Hey, baby. Wanna go in the back and see...the injection apparatus?"
"Hey, baby. Wanna see my microscopic object that only lasts a nanosecond before it goes away? Oh, wait. That came out wrong."
That rocks! (Score:5, Interesting)
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I thought the cameo by MC Steven Hawking was great...
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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.
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If something looks stupid, that doesn't change based on someone's skin colour. No exceptions.
But that said, I think the video is actually pretty groovy and I can also see the odd teacher showing it in a classroom (if teachers are still allowed to do something not listed on their government curriculum).
Btw, one the best and most influential rappers is white. *cough*Eminem*cough*
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.
ytcracker (Score:2)
If you guys like geek rap, you should check out the artist named ytcracker [ytcracker.com]. His album named "Nerd Entertainment System" is pure awesome. I'm not a huge fan of some of the later stuff, but it's very fun listening to a guy rapping about assembly opcodes, IRC, etc :)
AAAh my ears! (Score:1)
Who tf is playing with the volume? Just pick an amplitude and leave it alone!
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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I noticed that too.
This song reminds me of one of the Bill Nye music videos, and I like it but this version is really hard to listen to because the volume keeps changing.
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].
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https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html
Re:Youtube links (Score:5, Funny)
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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.
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Here's a better link [vimeo.com] where the audio isn't fucked by youtube's new audio equalization.
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Audio compression, actually. Which is a totally different thing. :)
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]
What a beautiful moment (Score:1)
to see the dawn and dusk of human intelligence combined together :)
An infinite waste of time (Score:5, Funny)
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But after a few loops people will try to kill them self to get out of it. Some one send them a groundhog.
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]
Nerdcore (Score:2)
They sure seem to know all about math [youtube.com].
Let's hope these black holes won't kill -9 [youtube.com] us all. :(
Educational, but no Cernettes (Score:2)
The lyrics are very educational, but the Cernettes are far better.
What happened to the Cernettes anyway? And why don't they make a music video about this?
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Public education (Score:3, Insightful)
Why is this here? (Score:2)
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.
Eh.. (Score:2)
Eh.. not as good as BabyCakes singing "Be Aggressive"
And in other news... (Score:2)
MC Hawking [mchawking.com] files a lawsuit for character infringement.
Dr. Spatso? (Score:2)
LHC? THC? (Score:2)
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.
Cernettes way better (Score:2)
The original CERN group:
the Cernettes [youtube.com]
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.
Disturbing yet Liberating the Revelation Coming (Score:2, Insightful)
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