Comments on: Free beer for life (and a Nobel Prize) http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Daen de Leon http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1617105 Daen de Leon Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1617105 There's a reason the yeast used in brewing lager has the synonym Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, y'know ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_pastorianus There’s a reason the yeast used in brewing lager has the synonym Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, y’know …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_pastorianus

]]> By: arthur slotoff http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1616868 arthur slotoff Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1616868 Free beer for life - this is very good, but free vodka for life - most better. Free beer for life – this is very good, but free vodka for life – most better.

]]> By: fidel_funk http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1616385 fidel_funk Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1616385 Pipeline no longer works, think they get a ration of two crates - a month, kinda boring. Pipeline no longer works, think they get a ration of two crates – a month, kinda boring.

]]> By: Spocko http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1616333 Spocko Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1616333 I really think this would drive more inner city and rural youths into science if the knew this. I really think this would drive more inner city and rural youths into science if the knew this.

]]> By: Roland Dorau http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1616329 Roland Dorau Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1616329 Then running around a lantern and is playing hydrogen. Then running around a lantern and is playing hydrogen.

]]> By: jhertzli http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1616281 jhertzli Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1616281 They obviously subsidized quantum mechanics in order to drive physics students to drink. They obviously subsidized quantum mechanics in order to drive physics students to drink.

]]> By: fidel_funk http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615977 fidel_funk Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615977 Deal still in effect, the little lovely villa is still given, free of charge to promising scientists (and their families). But limits have been made, think you can live there for a max of five years now, Niels Bohr stayed for 30 or 35... ...Know because I went on a (drinking) Tour of the old brewery recently.... Deal still in effect, the little lovely villa is still given, free of charge to promising scientists (and their families). But limits have been made, think you can live there for a max of five years now, Niels Bohr stayed for 30 or 35…
…Know because I went on a (drinking) Tour of the old brewery recently….

]]> By: bolamig http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615978 bolamig Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615978 Not just free beer but a direct pipeline between his house and the brewery! Not just free beer but a direct pipeline between his house and the brewery!

]]> By: Vnend http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615961 Vnend Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615961 Yeah, unless it was caffeinated beer, they weren't doing the world any favors. (Well, OK, I suppose it could have been beer that went well with coffee...) Yeah, unless it was caffeinated beer, they weren’t doing the world any favors.

(Well, OK, I suppose it could have been beer that went well with coffee…)

]]> By: Snig http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615962 Snig Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615962  Oil companies.  He was close to figuring out infinite free energy.  Mysterious death at a prominent point in his research would have raised questions.  They bought a brewery, installed infinite free beer in his house, and his research did not so much fly as plummet.   Oil companies.  He was close to figuring out infinite free energy.  Mysterious death at a prominent point in his research would have raised questions.  They bought a brewery, installed infinite free beer in his house, and his research did not so much fly as plummet. 

]]> By: Vnend http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615960 Vnend Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615960 As far as comparisons of awesomeness, the two can be different sets of the same cardinality. As far as comparisons of awesomeness, the two can be different sets of the same cardinality.

]]> By: xzzy http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615956 xzzy Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615956 There's gotta be some conspiracy behind this, you don't just give a guy free beer for life. That is.. unless you're trying to get him to avoid saying or doing something. I wonder what he discovered that a brewery wants kept out of the public eye!  Marijuana beer maybe? Bacon beer? Baconijuana Beer? There’s gotta be some conspiracy behind this, you don’t just give a guy free beer for life. That is.. unless you’re trying to get him to avoid saying or doing something.

I wonder what he discovered that a brewery wants kept out of the public eye! 

Marijuana beer maybe? Bacon beer? Baconijuana Beer?

]]> By: Romeo Vitelli http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615953 Romeo Vitelli Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615953 I can see modern Nobel laureates sending this page to local brewers and dropping hints... I can see modern Nobel laureates sending this page to local brewers and dropping hints…

]]> By: James Agenbroad http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615950 James Agenbroad Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615950 somehow I'm imagining a bar ad with the tag line "Laureates drink free!" somehow I’m imagining a bar ad with the tag line “Laureates drink free!”

]]> By: zuludaddy http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615949 zuludaddy Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615949 I'd thought that the Carlsberg brewery was at least partially under the control of the Crown, if not wholly so, making this the very best kind of hono(u)r...  I’d thought that the Carlsberg brewery was at least partially under the control of the Crown, if not wholly so, making this the very best kind of hono(u)r… 

]]> By: Matt Zimmermann http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615946 Matt Zimmermann Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615946 Something related that I recently found out: The Student's t-distribution, a widely used probability distribution, was derived by William Sealy Gosset while he worked at the Guinness Brewery. He had to publish under the pseudonym of 'Student' because Guinness was concerned about trade secrets being published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset Something related that I recently found out: The Student’s t-distribution, a widely used probability distribution, was derived by William Sealy Gosset while he worked at the Guinness Brewery. He had to publish under the pseudonym of ‘Student’ because Guinness was concerned about trade secrets being published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset

]]> By: Nash Rambler http://boingboing.net/2012/12/27/free-beer-for-life-and-a-nobe.html#comment-1615938 Nash Rambler Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202989#comment-1615938 Sure, you get the admiration of your colleagues and peers with the Nobel Prize, but at the end of the day, free beer is free beer. Sure, you get the admiration of your colleagues and peers with the Nobel Prize, but at the end of the day, free beer is free beer.

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