boutell explains why we need an LHC, anyway:Yes, detectors for naturally occurring cosmic rays have been built, and they have in fact taught us quite a bit. But we can't precisely control what goes into them. Or how energetic it is when it arrives. Or what angle it comes from. Or even when the collision will take place.
It's like trying to learn orthodonture by waiting for an orthodontist to walk by, coincidentally mention that he's an orthodontist, and say something enlightening into his cell phone before wandering out of earshot again. Take notes for a few thousand years and you might have a rough idea how braces work. But going to medical school— an environment in which we can expect to reliably encounter orthodontists under controlled conditions— is a lot more effective.
Now, not having actually been to medical school ourselves, we might worry that going to medical school will result in the creation of a black hole which annihilates our planet. After all, we have not personally tried it, so we don't know firsthand that this won't happen.
However, we do have an abundance of evidence that other people are going to medical school already, all over our planet, every day. So even though we don't know all the ins and outs of retainers yet, we can safely conclude that our planet will not be destroyed by attending medical school.
Context is making metaphors FOR SCIENCE.
But...what about evil medical school?
I mean, Doctor Horrible had to get his PhD in Horribleness somewhere, right?
I think that dentists are waiting to take over hell, anyway. The world isn't good enough for them
my dentist is, anyway.cleveranalogies to explain the arcane, I wholly approve of this awesome metaphor.:(:(:(:(:( !!!!
Medical school scares me... but then, anything remotely related to catheters scares me.
I wonder if the girl had emotional issues before she killed herself... committing suicide over a seriously unlikely happenstance usually doesn't just happen out of the blue, does it??
But yes...that's a very sad story.
Also, I'm SO tired of hearing of the LHC. Like the post anyway.
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But I'm not going there. No way no how. Everybody knows that if a person who went to medical school then goes to dental school, a black hole will crush the earth in its gaping maw of death. Trufax.
(I don't know why I felt the need to use the word "fab.")