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What was Stephen Colbert's rant about the Large Hadron Collider?
It was on September 16th; I can neither reproduce it word-for-word nor, thanks to a lack of Adobe Flash Player 10, play any clips from the relevant episode to check my memory against, but he highlighted the statement quoted in the Yale Daily News I linked above: "What did they say in 'Star Wars'? We're going where no man has ever been? Well, that's where we're going." To which Colbert responds in outrage: my God, man, are you telling me that the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider cannot distinguish between Star Trek and Star Wars? Cannot properly quote the world's most famous split infinitive, "To boldly go where no man has gone before"? What has the field come to? Where are the nerds whose IQs are to the tenth power of their social skills, the geeks who masturbate to pin-ups of the Higgs boson, the D&D enthusiasts? Our planet's future is in the hands of these people? Excuse me; I'll be over here paralyzed with terror. Hang on. Is it terror? and Colbert produces a pair of d20s, rolls: Yep. It's terror. Also, I am apparently a Frost Giant. It was brilliant.
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Not going to complain.
What was Stephen Colbert's rant about the Large Hadron Collider?
It was on September 16th; I can neither reproduce it word-for-word nor, thanks to a lack of Adobe Flash Player 10, play any clips from the relevant episode to check my memory against, but he highlighted the statement quoted in the Yale Daily News I linked above: "What did they say in 'Star Wars'? We're going where no man has ever been? Well, that's where we're going." To which Colbert responds in outrage: my God, man, are you telling me that the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider cannot distinguish between Star Trek and Star Wars? Cannot properly quote the world's most famous split infinitive, "To boldly go where no man has gone before"? What has the field come to? Where are the nerds whose IQs are to the tenth power of their social skills, the geeks who masturbate to pin-ups of the Higgs boson, the D&D enthusiasts? Our planet's future is in the hands of these people? Excuse me; I'll be over here paralyzed with terror. Hang on. Is it terror? and Colbert produces a pair of d20s, rolls: Yep. It's terror. Also, I am apparently a Frost Giant. It was brilliant.