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Offline ColinBT1994

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Anyone else glad?
« on: September 10, 2008, 10:24:34 PM »
So, for those of you that've been in a cave for the past month, the worlds BIGGEST atom smasher was test run today. And with big science comes...DOOMSDAY THEORIES. Apparently some German physicist thought that it hypothetically could create a micro black hole that would kill us all in 1/20th of a second. But don't worry, accordin to the European Organization of Nuclear Research, it is 100% safe because ALL of the operations the atom smasher performs are performed identically in the universe. So my question is, did anyone other than me and my history teacher stay up all last night because they were afraid of it?
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Re: Anyone else glad?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2008, 10:32:48 PM »
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So, for those of you that've been in a cave for the past month, the worlds BIGGEST atom smasher was test run today. And with big science comes...DOOMSDAY THEORIES. Apparently some German physicist thought that it hypothetically could create a micro black hole that would kill us all in 1/20th of a second. But don't worry, accordin to the European Organization of Nuclear Research, it is 100% safe because ALL of the operations the atom smasher performs are performed identically in the universe. So my question is, did anyone other than me and my history teacher stay up all last night because they were afraid of it?

I played a lot of very aggressive poker in anticipation of armageddon, fortunately, I'm still alive, and I'm +EV.
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Re: Anyone else glad?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2008, 12:14:58 AM »
Nope.. Didnt even know about it.  Then again I also used to live down the street from one in Chicago.
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2008, 08:47:48 AM »
I'll repeat my common consensus about the potential consequences:

Best Case Scenario: DINOSAURS MOTHERFUCKERS!! I WILL GET MY PULSE RIFLE AND TAKE OVER THE TIME WORLD WITH MY FUCKING NINJA DNA BRED DINOSAUR AND AN ARMY OF PIRATES!!!!!

Worst Case Scenario: OH Shi........__________

Middle ground scenario: The Swiss bite the dust.  Take that you non-commiting sons ofa bitches! Non-aggressive my ass!

All around a win win win.  Do it!

In all seriousness, we are going to either: Learn nothing, or learn something cool that will make scientists happy for a little while, then they will try to smash the smaller pieces together.  Esentially these scientists are like those kids who got Tonka trucks for their birthday, started smashing them together, found it was fun and wanted to know what was inside, broke them, was amused for a little bit at all the pieces, then started taking those pieces and smashing them together etc etc etc.
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Re: Anyone else glad?
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2008, 08:48:54 AM »
I forgot the date the LHC was going to be fired. I heard it yesterday on the news.
If we were to be sucked into a blackhole or scattered by stranglets I would have been sound asleep.
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2008, 08:50:05 AM »
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I forgot the date the LHC was going to be fired. I heard it yesterday on the news.
If we were to be sucked into a blackhole or scattered by stranglets I would have been sound asleep.

They haven't done the actual experiment.  All they did was fire the photon beams clockwise or counter clockwise, no colliding.  Our media hype at work my friends!
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2008, 10:46:29 AM »
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I forgot the date the LHC was going to be fired. I heard it yesterday on the news.
If we were to be sucked into a blackhole or scattered by stranglets I would have been sound asleep.

They haven't done the actual experiment.  All they did was fire the photon beams clockwise or counter clockwise, no colliding.  Our media hype at work my friends!

at 60,000,000 collisions a second, each one with the force of 2 trains colliding at 100 mph, it should be fun to watch.    





From very very very far away.  Like Jupiter.
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2008, 12:57:58 PM »
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I forgot the date the LHC was going to be fired. I heard it yesterday on the news.
If we were to be sucked into a blackhole or scattered by stranglets I would have been sound asleep.

They haven't done the actual experiment.  All they did was fire the photon beams clockwise or counter clockwise, no colliding.  Our media hype at work my friends!

at 60,000,000 collisions a second, each one with the force of 2 trains colliding at 100 mph, it should be fun to watch.    





From very very very far away.  Like Jupiter.


You can't stop the black hole man, it will get you eventually.  ALL HAIL THE MAGNIFICIENT BLACK HOLE!
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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2008, 12:59:48 PM »
something like this was done in a book i read.  It was pretty good, and the analogy they used was some scientist standing over a button shrugging and saying "let's see what happens"
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Re: Anyone else glad?
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2008, 02:22:35 PM »
Gordon Freeman, anyone?

I've got my crowbar ready to go.
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2008, 03:21:53 PM »
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Gordon Freeman, anyone?

I've got my crowbar ready to go.

Mmmmm, Gordon, I want you to push the sample into the containment field now.
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Re: Anyone else glad?
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2008, 04:07:45 PM »
Which one of you has the $100 bet with Hawking?
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« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2008, 05:04:59 PM »
"Why wouldn't they listen? We tried to warn them."
"I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade. Let alone create one."
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« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2008, 05:10:56 AM »
"Overhead capacitors to one-o-five percent.   Uh... it's probably not a problem... probably, but I'm showing a small discrepancy in... well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again.  Sustaining sequence."
That jerkface killed everyone.
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« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2008, 09:24:54 AM »
If I see a gaunt looking dude in a picture carrying a briefcase, I am fucking digging myself a hole and staying there, and sealing any air vents within a 50 mile radius...

Thats how they get you man, thats how they get you.
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