#WHAT IS CERN?

[msclaritea]

Stargate is a 1994 science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The film is the first entry in the Stargate media franchise and stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, and Viveca Lindfors. The plot centers on the titular "Stargate", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole, enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.

Less than Zero is a 1987 American drama film directed by Marek Kanievska, loosely based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) and his friend Julian (Robert Downey Jr.), both of whom have become drug addicts. The film presents a look at the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in Los Angeles.

Key Takeaways:

– James Spader recollects his time working with Robert Downey Jr. during ‘Less Than Zero'.

– The co-star noticed how Downey Jr.'s destructive lifestyle influenced his performance.

– Spader admired Downey Jr.'s turnaround when they next met on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Globally acclaimed actor Robert Downey Jr. is widely acknowledged for his phenomenal roles in the Hollywood film industry. Within his illustrious career, his portrayal of Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with Iron Man, stands out. However, even successful journeys have challenging beginnings. For Robert Downey Jr., his journey was marred by a period of drug abuse and legal troubles.

James Spader, co-star of Robert Downey Jr. in the 1987 drama ‘Less Than Zero', recently shed some light on his experience working with Downey Jr. during these testing times. Spader elucidates upon the heartbreaking moment he observed Downey Jr., a talented actor, struggling with destructive habits on the set of ‘Less Than Zero'. His concern for his co-star was compounded by the character Downey Jr. played – an addict.

“I'm gonna go drain the snake,” Downey Jr. would often mumble to himself during filming, leaving his co-star and others on set perplexed.

Downey Jr.'s character in ‘Less Than Zero' is often viewed as a mirror reflection of the actor's tumultuous past, with real-life drug abuse issues being mirrored on-screen. An actor of Downey Jr.'s caliber and his involvement borderline signaled a cry for help that resonated with his audience. This deep connection between his life's challenges and his screen roles turned Downey Jr. into Hollywood's dark horse at that time.

Spader retold his experience about Downey Jr.'s deplorable state during the filming of ‘Less Than Zero', “I found him heartbreaking in ‘Less Than Zero,' and I found him heartbreaking at the time.”

RDJ's physical deterioration, evidenced by patches of dead skin, only made the situation look grim.

However, as they say, every cloud has a silver lining. Downey Jr. made a remarkable turnaround with his life and career. His subsequent meeting with Spader on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron as a changed person would have been a proud moment for the Blacklist actor. His journey from self-destruction to being one of the biggest stars in Hollywood is nothing short of inspirational.

In the film, the Avengers fight Ultron (Spader)—an artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark (Downey) and Bruce Banner (Ruffalo)—who plans to bring about world peace by causing human extinction.

I don't need to say ONE WORD. The crap loads of Predictive Programming from just three projects says it all. I mean... besides milking it for more sympathy, why keep bringing up RDJ's past drug use? It's pretty humiliating, but also must have a purpose.

Bonus:

[pions]

we HAVE to stop

[redswaberkez]

surely he knows something

[good--merits-accumulated]

going back to my roots (epistolary historical aus that are just ridiculously fluffy. overly so.) this time anderperry version!

[dougielombax]

Trapped like a pine marten in a hadron collider.

[robotsprinkles]

does anyone know what the hell my mum's talking about when she says CERN had to shutdown/cancel an experiment/test twenty years ago because there were portals appearing in the sky above it?

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

help my partner is asking me what exotic particles are and how they work and idk what they are or how they work can you explain pls thank u i love u

omg researching this was harder than i thought but I'll do my best to explain

what it boils down to is the parts of the parts of atoms called quarks. quarks make up the protons and neutrons, and they can stack (????) into tetraquarks (four) and pentaquarks (five) and this does weird stuff like superconductivity (extreme electromagnetism)

this is the stuff that the hadron collider at CERN does and something like 80% of "exotic particles" are theoretical because we havent discovered them yet but the Physics Math Doesnt Work without them (like dark matter)

[outletcrash]

do not let me in CERN cuz i’ll manage to divide 5/4 into  -3.9550339e+76 and break math so bad they’ll explode a new particle into existence (i will name it the StrapOn) 

[patchodraws]

shit now i actually wanna answer questions about the horizon characters again !!!

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

the professor i teach physics sessions for just passed away.

[nillial]

im a big fan of tiefling devo You know this . you all know this . but in addition to it being swag if the voice of the apocalypse and major figure of the fantasy catholic church was a lil blue demon guy theres this Thing in tiefling lore where a tiefling can be born from two non-tiefling parents if a) there was some fiendish blood in there somewhere down the line or b) someone made a deal with the devil and i just think itd be soooososososooso swag if perhaps SOMEONE not naming names (declan cern) tried to make a deal in an attempt to get his son back . maybe this does not make sense . but in my mind . it does

[otterknowbynow]

"he wants you to know that he loves him -- you that he loves you"

"he loves the guy who's killing him?"

"I do love cern" crying about it

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

CAN THEY DO LIKEEEEE A CAMPAIGN 2 OF ETHERSEA PLEASE

[transgender-anakin-skywalker]

shoutout to me on this trip being like “okay i’ll just sit in my dorm and watch torchwood tonight” and then finding out that bbc iplayer doesn’t work outside the uk. heartbreaking. homophobia.

[thepartyponies]

from what I’ve read the rockets aren’t actually going to go near the sun, just in its direction, but even so

nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

[gavindna]

Omg wait MIT is pro Palestine? 🤩🤩🤩🤩 I gotta narrow down what field of science I wanna do to one that MIT has like courses in and shit