On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:11 -0600, somebody wrote:

> Jokes aside, doesn't anybody else find it ridiculous that almost 10 billion
> dollars is being spent on an experiment that will have absolutely zero
> practical benefit to mankind (even if it's spectacularly successful beyond
> imagination)?

You're forgetting the LHC Computing Grid that they developed to be able to
process and distrbute the pentabytes of information that will be generated
at a rate of about a gigabyte per second. CERN was also where the
fountations of the WWW was first developed.

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/04/the-lhc-will-revolutionize-physics-can-it-revolutionize-the-internet-too/

Brendan

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