Comments on: Large Hadron Collider grid stress-tested

The tests, which were deemed a success, threw huge amounts of data at the grid that will process information from the collider.

[weegg]

What money our gov't wasted bailing out Wall Street could have been better spent on something like this....sigh. US is losing its dominance in science and it will bite us in more ways than we can ever anticipate.

[jaguar717]

Don't worry, where we're going, you won't need science.

Just your monthly "carbon" allotment, a bus pass, and a fat tax bill for the 51% deadbeat majority you'll be supporting.

[redmarine]

As I live in Europe I'm not worrying at all. I believe that Europe has far surpassed US from a scientific standpoint or will power and will continue to do so for a long time.

Thumbs up!

[Austin_Mike]

@redmarine

Afraid at the moment that I agree with you. However, the beauty of the US is that it doesn't take long for us to get our act together and get back on track. We've got eight disastrous years to recover from, but we've finally got someone in the White House who's intelligent and sees the bigger picture. It's going to be a long road back, but we're taking the first small steps on it.

[redmarine]

Austin_Mike, I agree that once the US pulls itself together it can do and achieve whatever it wants. It's only a matter of getting enough will power.

Hopefully Obama has deployed some good top of the notch guys into the field. I believe that they should allow US should at least be able to do more interesting stuff within the field of science which religion forbids e.g. cloning, modifying DNA etc... Again and again the US have been proven to be able to do amazing stuff.

[Renegade Knight]

@Austin_Mike

Given that the new blood has kept all of the worst of the last 8 years to build on, I expect nothing short of 8 more years of disaster.

@redmarine

In some things yes. In some things know. Europe has financial dicipline the US doesn't. The solutions to health care are far better in some of the countries than the failed private system here. By failed I mean failing a lot of us and getting worse even as "reform" is attempted. When it comes to having a spine in world politics, it's a lot more hit and miss. However our new prez is a much of an appeasment kind of guy as some of the european countires so there's a big fail.

[BSinton]

While Obama is president science will be more respected than under Bush , who is a born again Christian , whose beliefs are mired in the Medieval Period..

The way things are going Europe will not be playing second fiddle to America any more.
You are getting your own satellite navigation system which will make you independent of the Americans, which is a good thing.

Then there is China. Napoleon Bonaparte said "Let China sleep for when she wakes the world will tremble" I think we are learning that now.
The Americans are so far in debt to the Chinese that they are now very worried about China's control over them.

I am hoping that the LHC will be successful in October , we should (or the Europeans should) discover things we haven't even dreamed about.

[lkrupp]

And remember that next year the United States will cease to be a spacefaring nation when the shuttle fleet is retired. We will have to rely on the Russians to get into space from then on. The "new" manned system is already behind schedule and, considering the massive debt we are accumulating as a nation, could easily be canceled altogether. It looks like manned space flight will be the realm of the Russians and the Chinese.

[CITechnologies]

How about giving credit to all the people who donated their processing power to this project. All of the BOINC users that go un-named here. If they truly want to give credit to the "grid network", then give credit where it is due. The BOINC users voluntarily donate their computer resources to this project and yet get little recognition for their efforts. For those that say America is lagging, Americans in general are on board with this project in smaller ways as they can. Not everything has to be about the government itself!

[mupptasstic]

As a European, I have to say this, the US among many other non EU nations are involved in the LHC, the US built elements of it, you have scientists there, just because it's here, doesn't mean you have no access or input.

[hapticz]

no wait, its all worth it. my secret source says they will actually be able to create 'wealth' by crashing these particles into each other! free money, gold from lead, light from darkness, etc etc... & you know the rest of that story! ;-))