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Fri Oct-08-04 12:51 AM
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Would you rather win an Oscar or a Nobel Prize? |
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Fri Oct-08-04 12:52 AM
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Edited on Fri Oct-08-04 12:56 AM by Moonbeam_Starlight
hands down more presige. Especially outside of the US.
Edit: make it a Nobel Peace Prize, too. MAN, would THAT ever be the shit.
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Fri Oct-08-04 12:53 AM
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Fri Oct-08-04 12:53 AM
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3. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (or Physics). |
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Preferably the chemistry prize. It'll be difficult for a theorist to get it in the next couple decades, so it might happen.
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Fri Oct-08-04 12:53 AM
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4. Nobel Prize. 100% no doubt. |
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I even know what I'd like to do to earn it. (Not that I've lifted a finger to actually do anything like it.)
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Fri Oct-08-04 12:54 AM
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the nobel prize for having the most oscars ever.
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Fri Oct-08-04 12:56 AM
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No need for painful high heels and a sprayed on tan. No idiotic interviews on the red carpet entering the venue.
Will miss Billy Crystal or Steve Martin though.
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Fri Oct-08-04 01:04 AM
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Closest thing to my career anyway.
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Fri Oct-08-04 01:11 AM
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11. That's a rough one, too. |
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Andrew Wiles didn't even get it for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. He got some kind of consolation prize, I believe. The Field's is a rough one, usually only given for work done in a mathematician's early career (under 30 years old).
John Nash was quite obsessed about getting one; I don't blame him. Isn't it only given out every other year, too, and sometimes not at all?
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:31 PM
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17. Every four years, I believe |
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And Wiles didn't get one because they're generally given out for a body of work, not a particular result. Controversial, that.
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:48 PM
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24. well if mathmeticians could keep their hands off of people's wives |
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maybe they'd get nobel prizes too. :P
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Fri Oct-08-04 01:07 AM
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Fri Oct-08-04 01:10 AM
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10. Nobel prize because that would mean that I had a brain in my head |
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An Oscar would just mean that I was a good actor which in turn would mean that I would be really good at bullshitting people.
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Fri Oct-08-04 01:21 AM
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12. Nobel Peace Prize, absolutely. |
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:21 AM
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Oscar is basically a popularity contest. Nobel says you actually did something
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:36 AM
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14. nobel - top 10 reasons |
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1. you get paid a million dollars 2. your speech can be longer than a minute 3. you actually make an impact on humanity 4. you necessarily had to do something important (unlike oscars where lighting guys win oscars) 5. nobel is more prestigeous 6. people actually care what you have to say 7. it's not rigged / political 8. you aren't competing with anyone 9. if your achievement isnt recognized one year, it can be recognized the next 10. you aren't criticized by a disgusting old hag about what you're wearing
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Fri Oct-08-04 05:44 AM
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15. I say Nobel, But I do have a few people I wish would get the Darwin.... |
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Fri Oct-08-04 07:31 AM
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16. I was shocked that the Nobel committee passed me up AGAIN |
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this year for the Physics prize. Oh well, maybe next year. ;-)
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:33 PM
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They give away better stuff :silly:
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:41 PM
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I'm a writer, not an actor.
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:42 PM
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Then someone can get an oscar for playing ME.
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:46 PM
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which is also a popularity contest, but one that I care about
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Fri Oct-08-04 02:48 PM
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for the money and the prestige
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Fri Oct-08-04 03:00 PM
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25. Nobel Prize - because they're far more prestigious n/t |
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Fri Oct-08-04 03:11 PM
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...because they are way cooler than an Oscar and you get cash...roughly 1.3 million dollars I think.
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Fri Oct-08-04 03:13 PM
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Edited on Fri Oct-08-04 03:13 PM by babyreblin
or mathematics.
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