Customer review for Neatorama's "Large Hadron Collider" t-shirt:
I was delighted to find my new shirt in the post. The shirt is high-quality, virgin-white cotton, emblazoned with a veritable 'colliderscope' of color upon the chest, declaring "Hooray! No black holes! Go Science! I survived the Large Hadron Collider."
I was immediately gratified that the word 'science' was properly spelled with an exclamation mark at the end, as it was in Thomas Dolby's immortal classic song, "She Blinded Me with Science!"
The poetic words of triumph surround a graphic representation of our own planet Earth, which, in a mark of ironic relativism of scale, is orbited by our own moon (which we call the Moon), giving the suggestion of an hydrogen atom and its single orbiting electron. One might think that showing an electron would have a negative connotation, but I'm positive it does not here.
The shirt itself has become a social lightning rod in public, when I am offered some rare human contact and the chance to explain that no, they are not colliding large hadrons (the 'large' referring to the collider itself) and that, yes, America could have built an even better collider had we really wanted to.
These conversations are often energetic, and usually end with me explaining where Europe is, how it would impossible for everyone there to be homosexual and still maintain a viable breeding population, and then being challenged to name three Frenchmen who aren't jerks.
I think I'll go look at that Batgirl again.
And just in case someone has missed it, here is the infamous exploding whale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4
Ick.
I was delighted to find my new shirt in the post. The shirt is high-quality, virgin-white cotton, emblazoned with a veritable 'colliderscope' of color upon the chest, declaring "Hooray! No black holes! Go Science! I survived the Large Hadron Collider."
I was immediately gratified that the word 'science' was properly spelled with an exclamation mark at the end, as it was in Thomas Dolby's immortal classic song, "She Blinded Me with Science!"
The poetic words of triumph surround a graphic representation of our own planet Earth, which, in a mark of ironic relativism of scale, is orbited by our own moon (which we call the Moon), giving the suggestion of an hydrogen atom and its single orbiting electron. One might think that showing an electron would have a negative connotation, but I'm positive it does not here.
The shirt itself has become a social lightning rod in public, when I am offered some rare human contact and the chance to explain that no, they are not colliding large hadrons (the 'large' referring to the collider itself) and that, yes, America could have built an even better collider had we really wanted to.
These conversations are often energetic, and usually end with me explaining where Europe is, how it would impossible for everyone there to be homosexual and still maintain a viable breeding population, and then being challenged to name three Frenchmen who aren't jerks.
Thanks, Neatorama! I love it!
"It's a small world, after all... It's a small world after all...."