My response on 4chan: "two contradictions: 1) higgs boson one of the most live streamed events ever, and hugely viral outside of the physics community. people

My response on 4chan: "two contradictions: 1) higgs boson one of the most live streamed events ever, and hugely viral outside of the physics community. people were streaming directly into the presentation at cern. 2) mars curiosity arguably the largest scientific event to have happened on the internet. people were watching a livestream at NASA, and also watching a direct simulation of the landing. twitter hashtags and facebook shares, galore. other events like the lunar eclipse are showing that the general public want to be in on the scientific action, as-it-happens."