Comments on: Watch Scientists Recreate the Big Bang (and Live)

By: Tuffy McFucklebee

Tuffy McFucklebee — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:11:07 +0000

@28 – very nice. That’s why I do science that you can count. I’ve tried taking a body apart and counting the cells. It’s soooooooooo tedious. I can’t afford all the dry ice and garbage bags.

Also, regarding the LHD: http://www.bigfatwhale.com/archives/bfw_374.htm

By: echo

echo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:42:43 +0000

But the rule of thumb is that a given person has 10-50 trillion cells.

Wow, now there’s the difference between scientists and engineers. If I designed something with a tolarence of plus or minus 20 trillion, I would no longer be employed.

By: oy

oy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:33:07 +0000

the number I saw was 20 million kilometers, so I guesstimated it into ‘merican. Number still don’t work tho

/dude, you can’t bring logic into science – what’s wrong with you?

By: Tuffy McFucklebee

Tuffy McFucklebee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:22:16 +0000

Hmmm… that only puts us in the 8.8 billion cells per person range.

6 ft = 0.001136364 mi
and
0.001136364 mi / cell
if
10,000,000 mi / you
then
(10,000,000 mi / you) x (1 / 0.001136364 mi / cell) = 8,799,997,184 cells / you

But the rule of thumb is that a given person has 10-50 trillion cells. So either we’re cramming a lot more DNA in those cells, or we’ve got a helluva lot more cells than the math provides.

/cellmate

By: oy

oy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:03:00 +0000

science rawks!

Did you know that you have 6 feet of DNA – in every cell?

Stretched out, end to end, you have about 10 million miles of DNA in you.

/particles moving at relativistic speeds hitting each other does not a black hole make – happens alla time in the universe

By: mc

mc — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:45:19 +0000

oh, Dr. Tuffy, no fear. your type of science I can wrap my head around somewhat and I won’t stop requesting your impromptu lectures. but particle physics and creating universes in a tube in switzerland? not a clue.

By: Tuffy McFucklebee

Tuffy McFucklebee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:00:21 +0000

@21: I’m still trying to drop science on you. I won’t give up! You’re one stubborn gal.

By: Pogo

Pogo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:40:44 +0000

Dear LHC, please explain to me anti-matter, and maybe send some pictures of some particles colliding… best desktop background ever.

By: mc

mc — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:51:26 +0000

20: oh, I was educated in science. It just didn’t take.

By: Rose McIntire

Rose McIntire — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:56:02 +0000

@18. And that is why you must skip over all of Europe and hop straight to Saudia Arabia to find a population as uneducated in science as we are in the US!
/Remember, kids,watch out for the woolly mammoths on the way to school.
//Go Sarah Palin!