FYI: The world ends next Wednesday

[Armando]

Re: FYI: The world ends next Wednesday

The apparent need to split hairs over which male parts touching is considered gay is pretty gay.

And disturbing.

Nonsense. It's vital information for your everyday life.

[TheGrandMom]

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Nonsense. It's vital information for your everyday life.

You nearly touch privates with naked men in your everyday life!?? Just what do you do for a living!!?

[Caspian]

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You nearly touch privates with naked men in your everyday life!?? Just what do you do for a living!!?

Fluffer

I thought it was only gay if balls touch.

Can I get a judge's ruling?

[Armando]

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You were supposed to catch the All That reference.

Also, judges don't use the internet; they think it's a series of tubes. So they really wouldn't know.

[Mhurron]

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Ted Stevens is a Senator, not a Judge.
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Also, hackers on those tubes are going to kill us all

Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider - Telegraph

[TheGrandMom]

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Fluffer

I had to look that up.....

[Aksannyi]

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I had to look that up.....

LOL, still learning every day, huh?

[Feba]

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They get close to the most amazing machine mankind has ever constructed... and they change the webpage?

That's not hacking, that's not even cracking. That's douchbaggery on the highest possible level.

Before someone asks why it's connected to the tubes, LHC Computing Grid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Also, didn't know it ran linux, huh. Would've expected custom software for something like that; but then I suppose that would be a huge endeavor in itself just by how many computers must be there.

[eticket109]

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They put some webcams up... pretty cool shit

LHC live feeds

[TheGrandMom]

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LOLOLOL Just as I say to my husband, check this out its pretty cool...........OMGZ!

[Mhurron]

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LHC_project

You too can destroy the world.

[Mhurron]

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Gordon, they're waiting for you in the test chamber.

The Associated Press: Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher

Last one, I swear.

Unless something cool happens.

[TheGrandMom]

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So I was reading my Oct issue of Popular Science and they had an article on Hadron Collider. There was a little box at the bottom of the first page that said:



Three Key Facts

1. The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex scientific experiment in the history of civilization.

2. Its goals are nothing less than to uncover the totality of the hidden universe - dark matter, usupersymmetric particles and, with any luck, a thing or two that no one has ever thought of.

3. No, it will not destroy us all. If it could, we'd be gone already.



At the end of the article was another box that said:



A Short Note On The End Of The World

You may have heard that the LHC will destroy us all. That it will create miniature black holes or exotic strangelets that will consume everything and everyone. After all, newspapers have trumpeted such Chicken Little headlines as "The End of the World as We Know It" (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2008), "One Big Bang, is Usually All It Takes" (Lebanon [PA] Daily News, May 2, 2008), and my personal favorite "Whoops Apocalypse" (Daily Mail [London], September 18, 2008)

Physicists, however, do not fear the impending armageddon. "The discussion of the possibility that experiments at this energy range would create a black hole that would eat up the Earth is silly and out of hand," says Nobel Prize winner David Gross in the exasperated tone of a third-grade teacher at the end of a tough year.

The reason is simple: High-energy particle collisions happen all the time. Every so often, a proton that's been kicked out of a supernova screams across the universe and slams into the Earth with far more energy than the LHC can muster. A recent study estimates that this has happened more than 30 billion trillion times. If the LHC could make killer black holes, these cosmic rays wold have first done it long ago. Yet we're still here. Chicken Little, the sky is falling. that proves we have nothing to worry about.



I just thought it was funny how they had to quip on the fears of the masses even in a magazine such as this.

[Omniblast]

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People are stupid.

[Feba]

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After all, newspapers have trumpeted such Chicken Little headlines as "The End of the World as We Know It" (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2008),

I don't know, I actually like this one. The LHC probably will bring an End to the World as We Know It. That's why we spent so much money building it.