Private Donor Saves Fermilab

sciencehabit writes "In what has to be an embarrasment for the U.S. Department of Energy, an anonymous donor has ponied up $5 million to keep the country's only remaining particle physics laboratory operating efficiently."

Anonymous Coward here,

[Anonymous Coward]

You can direct your appreciation towards me. Yes, me, Anonymous Coward. I sent the 5 million dollars.

SCIENCE? Who needs that shit?

[Ralph Spoilsport]

MY GOD!!! We have nations to invade, and children to burn, and a treasury full of cash that needs to be looted by the military industrial complex. We don't need stuff like BASIC RESEARCH. Hell with that crap. We need bombs and guns to keep the empire rolling and extract other nations resources for our own lazy convenience.

RS

Re:Taxes

[J'ai Friedpork]

What we need is a nice young physicist to find some backwards way to use particle physics to "prove" intelligent design. The Republicans wouldn't be able to throw money at that place fast enough.

Thank you...

[denzacar]

Mr. Wayne.

Re:SCIENCE? Who needs that shit?

[marshac]

What's sad is your comment was rated as Informative rather than funny...

Re:very humbled

[Dr. Cody]

Is it true about a massive wave of people leaving for CERN?

p.s. Love the bison you've got there.

Re:No, this is what's great about the US

[Kohath]

Salami attack [wikipedia.org] -- wow, there's now a term for everything.

Take that, people who are trying to learn English. You'll never learn it all!

Re:very humbled

[Rocketship Underpant]

It can either be seen as a massive wave or a massive particle, depending on how it's measured.

Re:very humbled

[rhendershot]

ok this should be modded up +1 Funny!

Re:The sad thing...

[The Master Control P]

Goddamn government leftists and their "Computer" research. Fat lot of fuckin good that'll ever do us. If that dork Turing cares so much, let him pay for it! None of that stuff will ever see the light of day or help us in general.

Oh wait!

Just wondering something here...

[Plazmid]

I wonder if there are enough slashdot users that we could keep fermilab going by each of us donating a cent. That way fermilab could keep making discoveries that make good slashdot stories. It's a win win relationship.

It's an embarassment for Google.

[heroine]

Wealthy individuals donating huge amounts to science? It's an embarassment for Google.

Re:The sad thing...

[scrollios]

yes... yes it does. now wheres my monica, er, i mean prostitute.

Re:very humbled

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, 2/3 of us are planning to charter a C-5 cargo plane, load it up with ourselves and whatever we can scavenge (certainly the pendulum) and do an air drop over at CERN. We're bulldozing a big section of grass to make a runway. But before we go we're planning for a BIG barbecue, Ted Turner style.

Re:very humbled

[Dr. Cody]

"I had a massive hadron for your mother last night, Trebek."

Re:very humbled

[Anonymous Coward]

>> a massive wave of people leaving for CERN?

Yes. It is described daily as the tsCERNami.

Re:Small government, private philanthropy

[msuarezalvarez]

But Switzerland is filled with Swiss people, so the example hardly applies to other places...

Re:Small government, private philanthropy

[ecavalli]

on the plus side, I'm only a few hundred km away from a country that would take me in (due to my heritage in the unlikely event that something really bad was decided and I needed to get out of here FAST

Psh. When has that ever happened in Germany?

Re:Taxes

[knarf]

democracy is 2 foxes and 1 chicken voting on what's for dinner.

...while in the Republic of the US the chickens vote on which of the 2 foxes gets to eat them.

Re:Small government, private philanthropy

[dreamchaser]

While good in theory, one look at what is popular on TV in the US these days makes me shudder at the thought of direct democracy.

Yes, that is somewhat a joke, but not really.

Re:The sad thing...

[TJamieson]

And they made that space-like Tempur material for my bed! YAY!

Mysterious Donor identified

[Anonymous Coward]

The mysterious donor was identified as:

EMPLOYEE NUMBER BASSE SIXTEEN