Posted: Feb 22, 2012 8:33 pm
Pulsar wrote:You've got to be fucking kidding me. A loose cable?
If this gets confirmed, I can't wait to see the press conference. This is going to be awkward
I don't think it needs to be awkward. They have always said that there could be a systemic problem with their experiment. Science is a process.
Just like the early trajectory calculations of the asteroid a few years back that gave a high probability for an Earth impact, then someone found photographic records of the object from several months previous. They ran the calculations with the newly found data and came up with virtually 0% chance of impact. The headlines were "Astronomers goof" and "Scientists flunk at math" or some such bullshit.