Mirror particles created in lab

[thatcrazycajun]

Oh, joy. Yet another high-tech way to blast ourselves to hell and back...
Mirror particles form new matter for gamma-ray annihilation lasers - BBC News
Memo to Dr. Cassidy and his team: Just because you can do a thing doesn't automatically make it a given that you should do it. Arthur C. Clarke may yet have the last word on our fitness to survive as a species...

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Calling Doctor Bruce Banner, Bruce Banner to the white courtesy phone, please.

[tokyosteven.livejournal.com]

The phrase "gamma-ray annihilation lasers" does sound a bit ominous.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

There is no "Last Word", as long as people are still talking.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Totally off the topic, this entry in Language Log, about some language idiocy in France, gets into Cajun slang about 2/3 of the way down the page.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Merci beaucoup, mon cher ami! My family has always used the term "coonass" proudly in reference to ourselves and our relatives, or to someone we think of as one of us (my father used to describe former Governor Edwin Edwards that way; Edwards was born in Crowley, LA, not far from my own home town of Lafayette); even though we are technically more middle-class in terms of income, my dad always has thought of himself as working-class, probably because he was farm-raised and also because his work usually involves his hands rather heavily (firefighting, carpentry/drapery hanging/picture framing).

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it!

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

[kayshapero]

Nah, we'll wait around until someone figures out how to recreate the Big Bang. And does it. Hmm.. wonder if that's what happened last time?

And God said "Let There Be...Oops..."

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, the Great Bird Of the Galaxy is Smiling.