I did not know that people could survive such heat
Bah. A decent sauna is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and is good for you. I've spend plenty of quarter-hours at this temperature. US sauna are all dialed pitifully low for insurance reasons.
260F is just enough hotter than 200F that it wouldn't be pleasant anymore, but certainly not lethal in the short term. Drink enough fluids to replace the sweat and you'll be fine.
assume a sheet of paper to be roughly 100 grams
Love those ballpark estimates... so that 500-sheet pack I brought home the other day weighed more than my wife? I must have had a lot of spinach that day.
So, by not taking data now, the LHC staff are really saving themselves some time
Which is an excellent example of the value of slacking.
Science may have had little use for it, but what was accomplished in terms of international cooperation is really quite impressive.
Maybe so. The point, however, is that this sort of thing could have been accomplished just as well by spending the same amount of money on any comparably complex international project - preferably one that, unlike the ISS, had some actual value, be it scientific, ecologic, humanitarian, whatever.
Amazing things could have been done with this kind of money and international cooperation. Instead we got a white elephant in orbit, proving nothing so much as our ability to throw good money (ISS) after bad (Shuttle) into the pockets of the aerospace-military-industrial complex.
Somebody please rewind the last 30 years of the US manned space program. It's been far worse in terms of fizzle-per-gigabuck than anyone's worst nightmares could have envisioned in 1979. It makes me weep.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
