Reply to: Down the drain.

[PerlOfWisdom]

Reading University is to have no physics department. Could you still call it a university? Isn't a university that doesn't do physics like a supposedly industrial country without its own car manufacturer?

Oh, wait.....

Due to an accidental experiment involving a cat, it neither has nor hasn't got a physics dept.

[Mordac]

Why do we need scientists anyway? All they do nowadays is refine existing technology beyond its useful limits. Who gives a sh1t about Vista, making blockbuster movies on your mobile, or Higg's boson?

We've outsourced science to India. That should make the next few decades rather interesting. And to be fair I was reading about the Higgs Bosun thingy the other day. They've spent £4bn building a massive underground reasearch place with some very impressive stats (big enough to hold Westminster Abbey, produce proton beams equivalent to 200mph trains colliding or something) just to try and find something which lasts for less than a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. What a fecking waste of money. Even the guy in charge said its discovery would make no difference to our lives. He should be sacked.

[Zippy]

Reading university specialised in three main areas:

Physics

AI

Cooking

Loosing Physics is quite a big thing....

But I assume they'll continue to pay Kevin Warwick to talk utter bollox about the future of robotics? I am depressed ................

[Lucy]

What did science ever do for us, eh? What do these self-styled "scientists" know?

Chico.

Ahh, yes, the remystification of science, that will bring a brighter day.

[SallyAnne]

Just like a Hovis advert...

Exactly! We'd all have fresh rosey cheeked face like little Timmy riding his bike to get the bread...thats better for you than some scientific chemical peel!

[Lucifer Box]

What did science ever do for us, eh? What do these self-styled "scientists" know?

Chico.

[SallyAnne]

Its about time this country stopped moving forward anyway. I'd prefer it if everywhere was like York...little cobbled streets, only thing that mattered was pies and old fashioned pubs.....ahhhh what a peaceful life that would be...

[Numptycorner]

and scientists only say things we don't want to hear. Let's just ask White van men

[stackpole]

Why do we need scientists anyway? All they do nowadays is refine existing technology beyond its useful limits. Who gives a sh1t about Vista, making blockbuster movies on your mobile, or Higg's boson?

[sasguru]

I don't know what disgusts me more, to be compared to a manager or to sasguru. Btw, you don't need any social skill as a permie manager but only a slimey cover to act like you care about but secretly waiting for the best moment to backstab. In a few words, second only to agents, managers are the worst psychopaths you would leave your children alone with.

Poor Francko. Destined to be a loser, eh?

[Francko]

Who needs whacky physics when we can all be permie managers like sasguru and Franko?

Oh no wait, it requires social skillz...

I don't know what disgusts me more, to be compared to a manager or to sasguru. Btw, you don't need any social skill as a permie manager but only a slimey cover to act like you care about but secretly waiting for the best moment to backstab. In a few words, second only to agents, managers are the worst psychopaths you would leave your children alone with.

[Ardesco]

Reading university specialised in three main areas:

Physics

AI

Cooking

Loosing Physics is quite a big thing....

[Lucy]

Reading University is to have no physics department. Could you still call it a university? Isn't a university that doesn't do physics like a supposedly industrial country without its own car manufacturer?

Oh, wait.....

Why would any UK youngster interested in science go to Reading for goodness sake ?

Japan doesn't have an aviation industry, that doesn't mean it's not industrialised...

[rge]

Why would any UK youngster, with a brain, want to study any science subject? Law or Accountancy makes much more sense.

Why do you say that? they are rather boring subjects.

[Viktor]

Poor Niels Bohr, poor Heisenberg, stupid physicians!!

When you can do nothing all day in the office waiting to invoice £500 a day and call yourself "a business", what tha heck...