Here is a rap song video about the Large Hadron Collider, in which you can see pictures of the massive facility, as well as view footage of white people dancing very badly.
You’re welcome.
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Yeah, it’s an incredibel piece of music. My physics teacher sent it to me a couple of weeks ago, apparently he has worked at CERN, but they didn’t do this type of thing back then he claims.
My home county of Monroe, MI was pegged as a possible supercollider location back in the late 80s. Tragically, it was deemed that construction would be too expensive due to the water table.
Damned water.
Man….. that was corny….. bookmarked.
Hahaha. “Background dancers: Prefer anonymity”
A wise decision, I’d say.
As long as they find out all about Higgs particles and solve the probelm of gravity, I may just be able to be lenient when judging their dancing skills…
(My own dancing skills range somewhere around 1.5 Kelvin…)
Oh, and: Thank you, Shamus!
Heheheh, enjoyed it, thanks for pointing it out.
big bang or big bug?
Looks like the LHC was overfunded.
Hey! I finally found a rap I can enjoy! All rappers should start teaching advanced subjects in their music.
The “dancing” was hysterical.
Is this proof the LHC failed?
Destroyed the world with tiny black holes?
My geekness factor just went ++
Old news :P.
Seriously, I heard about this about a month ago, I think. More recent news, though, as of only about a week ago, is that the vocal track is publicly available for remixing: https://www.msu.edu/%7Emcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html
Which means, of course, that I simply can’t help but pimp my own contribution to the genre, available here: http://www3.hmc.edu/~afield/music/neminem_-_Black_Holes_and_Scientific_Revelations.mp3 ;)
Remember me? I’m the guy who mashup-geek’d out when you mentioned Norwegian Recycling a while back.
I really can’t decide whether this is awesome, or totally, embarrassingly corny. I think it’s both.
Thanks.
Man, this just depresses me. I just read they have to shut the LHC down for more than a month because one of the superconducting electromagnets overheated or something…
I don’t really have much to say, other than that this gets a place in the “Best Rap Songs in the Universe” chapter of my imaginary “Best Things in the Universe” book.
neminem: Feels a little simplistic (I’m a big fan of Girltalk, so I enjoy my mashes ridiculously busy), but its definitely better than the original, and darn good.
wow. I think I sprained my… brains. something about that made me want to rofl and be gouging out my ears at the same time… thanks Shamus!
Neminem, it needs more cowbell!
Cowbell maker! http://www.morecowbell.dj/
And if for some reason any of you DON’T know, how EPIC this is… Watch this.
MORE COWBELL!! http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/snl-more-cowbell.html
Yarr, already seen it, it’s nice :-)
Nearly as “good” as the old Microsoft Comercials.
Oh… Oh my…
Rock on brutha’
Rock on!
makes me a bit sad that they keep getting set back by one thing or another, then again, with something that big and complicated there’s bound to be stuff going wrong :/
Thanks for the awesome, Shamus.
This short video explains LHC better than anything else in the media that I’ve seen.