Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Better writeup here

LHC Run 2 First Results

Reasons to be excited: naively combining CMS and ATLAS gives something of 4 sigma significance, people are making the analogy with the early Higgs signal. Reasons to be less excited: in the case of the early Higgs signal, the tentative signal was what was expected from the Higgs, and we had very good reasons to believe there was a Higgs roughly in that mass range. Here I know of no well-motivated models that predict this: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this is not that.

And also, no SUSY:

Run 2 and SUSY

Whatever you thought the remaining probability was for SUSY after the negative Run 1 results, it’s significantly smaller today.

This sounds like an excerpt from a Neal Stephenson novel

Unfortunately, it ain't.

I can't imagine it will be long before "our" duhmucratic "leaders" decide to take a page or two from that particular book..

Complete with Munich Palm Tree

Why is this illustrated with a photo of Huawei Shenzen Headquarters?

This is why we can't have nice things

> Find perps

> Align perps

> Use of laser-guided tank rocket resulting in youtube-worthy gore

COUGH

"doggedly probing a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing"

That the one where dogged probing fingered Iran as the culprit instead of the far more likely far-right hit squads? Insofar as the "dogged probing" continued to dog the Iran "theory", this did not bode well for ultimately useful information.

One missile hit and it's all over.

its gentle sloping sides are good for deflecting projectiles

Those must be softballs. The times of iron walls are long past gone.

Today's "projectiles" aka autonomous missiles, hypersonic or otherwise, will transform this silly radar-evading contraption into a rapidly expanding shell of debris and fleshy parts.

A couple of "terrorists" (even though they attacked a clear military target) ripped the destroyer USS Cole a new one with just a dinghy and some plastic explosives ... of course this gave the US a good occasion to demand money from any and all members of the momentary axis of evil, as the Empire is wont to do, but I digress.

Oh no

People being professionally offended on others' behalf again?

A man with no honour, a man with no decency

The president of the ISIS-enabling nation says ISIS means we need to control you.

I am actually starting to believe the latest "events" were indeed false flags.

This is all just simply too beautiful.

Plus, he's making fun of the Russians, who got actually hit by ISIS. Who are actually the only ones operating in Syria in accordance with any semblance of international law. And are cleaning up the money-making ISIS-Turkey oil trade. That's got to make certain deep-state players nervous.

I will found a new reglion....

The goddess Knollij commands me to find out everything I can about the universe, at scales above my lowly self as well as below and also commands the relentlessly pursuit of the construction of machines exhibiting higher levels of intelligence. She also orders me to expand throughout space and time and exploit stuff at my heart's content as well as to fill the galaxy with life so that it eventually looks like a fucking punk industrial neon-lit night club from Andromeda. All other religions and gods are apostasy and need to be eventually assimilated by evangelical persuasion - or else! Parliaments, ecodudes and political bodies that stand in the way of Knollij shall be squashed like bugs and cleansed by fire. Otherwise, however, peace shall reign and no life, creature or system shall be harmed unless its opposition to Knollij is irredeemable.

KNOLLIJIAN JIHAD SOON!