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I found it funny that their current ad, "Don't Back Down", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXBcbYvKU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXBcbYvKU8 uses an ani
by pak 13y ago
I found it funny that their current ad, "Don't Back Down",
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXBcbYvKU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXBcbYvKU8
uses an animation at 0:08 clearly from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/star.asp http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/star.asp which is run by Department of Energy (federal) funding and has nothing at all to do with startup technology, or New York taxes for that matter. The facility does happen to be located on Long Island.
A high-energy nuclear physics experiment focused around a mile-wide particle accelerator is so opposite to what startups aim to accomplish (minimum viable products, small teams, bootstrapping, becoming profitable fast) that the reference is nothing but humorous to me.
Perhaps the implication is that there are very smart scientists in the NY area that one can poach off to work at startups as federal funding for high energy physics research declines. :-(