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CERN
Dec 6, 2005 11:09:15 GMT
Post by midgetmogget on Dec 6, 2005 11:09:15 GMT
Shame indeed.
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escapedlunatic
Beryllium
Cheese, then.
Should this now be called the "teenandrandom20yearoldwhoreallyoughttogetoutmorescienceforum"?
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CERN
Dec 22, 2005 16:10:12 GMT
Post by escapedlunatic on Dec 22, 2005 16:10:12 GMT
Just to make my little contribution to the discussion, CERN stands for Centre Européanne pour la Recherche Nucléaire. Thought you'd all be fascinated to know that. For anyone whose French is sufficiently feeble not to be able to work that out when it's virtually identical to the English, it means European Centre for Nuclear Research.
I have to admit I'm not a great expert on Cern, so to stay sort of on topic I'll mention a Relativity lecture we had this term in which the lecturer was showing us some Powerpoint slides with pictures of particle accelerators. First he showed us CERN, and then the one in California...
"A particle accelerator is a cutting edge, state of the art piece of technology, costing a large amount of time and money to build. So where do the Americans put theirs? [Points to a line down the middle of the picture, crossing the accelerator at right angles] That is not a road. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the San Andreas fault."
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CERN
Dec 22, 2005 22:08:38 GMT
Post by lotsahillsv13 on Dec 22, 2005 22:08:38 GMT
Ohayo, Michael!
Apparently they need really large magnets.
In a show a while ago, there was a cloud chamber made of dry ice and a jam jar. That was quite cool.
That's the type of thing the Americans would do, isn't it?
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CERN
Jan 10, 2006 14:12:06 GMT
Post by midgetmogget on Jan 10, 2006 14:12:06 GMT
It's not their fault!
Well, actually it is.
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CERN
Jan 11, 2006 7:02:44 GMT
Post by StephiB on Jan 11, 2006 7:02:44 GMT
Ohayoo, I think it is.
(Yes, I have been trying to remember the correct spelling for two weeks.)
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CERN
Jan 11, 2006 9:39:58 GMT
Post by midgetmogget on Jan 11, 2006 9:39:58 GMT
Of Ohayoo?
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CERN
Jan 12, 2006 1:58:03 GMT
Post by StephiB on Jan 12, 2006 1:58:03 GMT
Yeah. My Japanese books were packed away.
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CERN
Jan 12, 2006 9:39:15 GMT
Post by midgetmogget on Jan 12, 2006 9:39:15 GMT
*confuzzed*
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CERN
Jan 12, 2006 12:34:31 GMT
Post by StephiB on Jan 12, 2006 12:34:31 GMT
*Why?*
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CERN
Jan 12, 2006 13:40:15 GMT
Post by midgetmogget on Jan 12, 2006 13:40:15 GMT
Ohayoo = ?
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CERN
Jan 13, 2006 0:34:14 GMT
Post by StephiB on Jan 13, 2006 0:34:14 GMT
Good morning. Informal.
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CERN
Jan 13, 2006 9:31:08 GMT
Post by midgetmogget on Jan 13, 2006 9:31:08 GMT
Ah. Thankyou. Guten tag.
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CERN
Jan 13, 2006 9:58:08 GMT
Post by StephiB on Jan 13, 2006 9:58:08 GMT
Ohayoo gozaimasu is the formal version ... used when addressing senior peoples and suchlike.
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CERN
Jan 13, 2006 23:08:30 GMT
Post by lotsahillsv13 on Jan 13, 2006 23:08:30 GMT
And you don't pronounce the "u", or all Japanese people within a 14-mile radius arm themselves and head for you.
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CERN
Jan 14, 2006 1:30:02 GMT
Post by StephiB on Jan 14, 2006 1:30:02 GMT
I did Japanese for four years, and the first thing I learnt was that.
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