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[pete]

Physics Breakthroughs

• Understanding the origin of cosmic rays by 2010 4/1
• The ATLAS experiment at CERN finding the Higgs Boson by 2010 6/1
• The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detecting gravitational waves by 2010 10/1
• Building a fusion power station by 2010 100/1

http://www.ladbrokes.com/lbr_portal?action=do_lang_splash&form_name=lang_splash&LANG=ie&STYLE=ie&VIEW=ie&LAYOUT=default

“I will certainly have a flutter,” says Jim Hough at the University of Glasgow in the UK and a member of the LIGO team. He is confident that LIGO will catch a gravitational wave before 2010. “I would have put the odds between 2-1 and 10-1.”

In fact, a flurry of bets came in straight away on Thursday for LIGO, one of which was for £50. If successful, this anonymous punter will scoop a whopping £25,000. Ladbrokes responded swiftly to these bets by slashing the odds on LIGO down from 500-1 to 100-1, and later to just 10-1.
According to Ladbrokes, the rank outsider is the Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn. On Christmas Day, Cassini will release the wok-shaped Huygens probe on a 20-day journey towards Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Ladbrokes has set the odds of finding intelligent life on Titan by 2010 at 10,000-1, the maximum odds allowed.

Mark Leese, who manages the surface science package on the Huygens probe at the UK's Open University, is not surprised by the long odds. “Huygens isn’t really designed to find life,” he says. “The only way it would is if something sang into its microphones.”

They've removed that one now. Bah.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996331

 

[snakybus]

http://www.ladbrokes.com/lbr_portal?action=do_lang_splash&form_name=lang_splash&LANG=ie&STYLE=ie&VIEW=ie&LAYOUT=default

They've removed that one now. Bah.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996331

well I guess you wouldn't a won anyway, eh?

 

[pete]

well I guess you wouldn't a won anyway, eh?

nah, but these 2 are looking good:

The ATLAS experiment at CERN finding the Higgs Boson by 2010 6/1
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detecting gravitational waves by 2010 10/1

 

[snakybus]

go for it, worth a flutter

I can't believe nobody talked about Cassini Huygens on thumped when it landed

it's such a cool thing

 

[pete]

go for it, worth a flutter

I can't believe nobody talked about Cassini Huygens on thumped when it landed

it's such a cool thing

you can't place them bets no more. fuckers.

i love the novelty bets so i do.

 

[Super Dexta]

go for it, worth a flutter

I can't believe nobody talked about Cassini Huygens on thumped when it landed

it's such a cool thing

didn't they? a certain thumped member kept going on and on and on about it to me when they happened.. i was sure he mentioned it on here too.. or maybe that's just my line between internet and reality blurring again

 

[snakybus]

who was this?

I don't think it was mentioned at all was it?

 

[Super Dexta]

richie.
a quick search of 'huygens' only turn up this thread, and 'mars probe' gets nothing. it appears you are correct. damn that blurry line to hell.

 

[snakybus]

are you sure it was that probe he was on about wha wha

twadn't saturn's rings wha wha

 

[Super Dexta]

are you sure it was that probe he was on about wha wha

twadn't saturn's rings wha wha

he kept playing this mp3 of it landing over and over and over again
it was quite cool though; it souded like herv.