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Large Hadron Collider set to destroy Earth

StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
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[URL="http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html"]European Organization for Nuclear Research[/URL]

Time to put your things in order... because soon it won't matter anyway. :D

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_re_eu/doomsday_collider"] Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher, move along, there's nothing to see...[/URL]
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  • MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
    Was working at CERN for one year in 2004, so looking forward to the start-up :)

    [url]http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR05.08E.html[/url]
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Hmm, I can't see you using your kite in there... 11000 revolutions per second. :D
  • sataicallistasataicallista High Priestess of Squeee!
    [QUOTE=Mundane;174123]Was working at CERN for one year in 2004, so looking forward to the start-up :)[/QUOTE]

    Cool! What did you do there?
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    The same thing he tries to do every night: take over the world!
  • MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
    Didnt do much actually :)..was a "Technical Student", programming Python....
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Really, now they want to take pictures of particles with [URL="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/st_darkenergy_camera/"]a large digital camera.[/URL] No wonder we are getting nowhere. Who cares about pictures of particles? What a waste. They should take pictures of Megan Fox instead, now that would be more interesting. The science of hotness. Imagine an infinite source of energy. This could save the world. :D
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    I think he's in love folks! :D
  • sinclairsinclair Ranger
    According to Pakistani news, we have greater problems... And its not caused by LHC, but Norwegians.

    [url]http://www.daily.pk/norway-time-hole-%E2%80%9Cleak%E2%80%9D-plunges-northern-hemisphere-into-chaos-14311/[/url]

    God damn Norwegians, stop messing with lazers!
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Thanks for that. I haven't seen a good conspiracy theory rant in quite some time! :D
  • Vertigo_1Vertigo_1 Ranger
    It's not the Norwegians, it's the eeeeevil US scientists on Norwegian soil.

    Good to know why we've been getting so much snow lately. Must be working. Go US!
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    it look dangerous

    [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/09/article-1053719-02956C4200000578-219_468x286.jpg[/IMG]
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    It looks almost as frightening as that rocket launch site inside that volcano in one of the earlier James Bond movies.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Yeah right...
    This is just the weather which was normal 15-20 years ago: Since halfway December there has been only few hot -10C days and average is between -15 and -20C with -25C starting to become common lately.
    Only thing abnormal is abnormally hot weather in northern Finland: From -5 to -10C.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Not sure how the weather in Finland relates to the LHC, but who am I to complain?! :D

    Go [insert your favorite sports team], go!!!
  • sinclairsinclair Ranger
    Maybe he was relating to Norwegian weather machine? Just maybe...
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    This "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway" is not a "weather machine" nor is that article scientific in any shape or form. This nonsense could have been lifted from some 25 cent tabloid in a train station news stand.

    I guess when in doubt make stuff up.

    Where is the chaos? As far as I can tell it's all concentrated in Haiti right now. I don't know if anybody noticed, but the Palestinians and Israelis are coming along nicely. There hasn't been anything in the news lately, or has there? So maybe if nobody talks about the Middle East, there will be peace after all. Where there is no bad news, there's hope.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    I guess, we can soon all breathe a little easier again... [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8556621.stm"]the LHC is set to shut down yet again.[/URL]

    I have the distinct impression this project feels a lot like a hobby to these people. They spend more time fixing the darn thing, than using it. :D
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Well that's one hobby I'd like to have to work on ;)
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    Considering the complexity of a project like this, I'd say it's a testament to the abilities of the people working on it that it has "only" suffered the setbacks it has.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Indeed. It is also "only" the most complex piece of machinery ever assembled. Yes its frustrating to see it not working at full potential, but just the fact that they can power it up at all is hugely impressive
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE=ShadowDancer;187347]It is also "only" the most complex piece of machinery ever assembled.[/QUOTE]

    I don't buy that for one nanosecond. :D
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Nor do you want to. The place costs billions!
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    I'd start my own space program if I had that kind of money... there is only so much fun to be had from smashing particles.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    Are you saying that smashing things is boring?
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    If you find it boring then clearly you arent smashing the right kind of things
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Well, they aren't aiming those particle beams at anything worth smashing. :D

    But who knows, maybe this research will lead to the discovery to the first PPG. But it won't happen if they keeping breaking the darn thing. I feel like they've built a subway and the trains keep derailing... very frustrating.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    "There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it! "
  • sinclairsinclair Ranger
    [quote]Nor do you want to. The place costs billions! [/quote]
    Well, according to Wikipedia the Finnish fusion power plant costs a bit more, and even provides electricity! The nuclear thing is a typo, do not trust Wiki blindly. Trust me.

    [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_most_expensive_single_objects[/url]
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    I assume you mean fission?
  • sinclairsinclair Ranger
    No!
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