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So, anyone else getting ready for when they fire up the Large Hadron Collider tommorow?

y? , the world is going to implode, how do you prepare for something like that?
i am gonna get laid tonight, jic

if the world is gonna explode, imma gonna get as far away as possible (throws self at ground and tries to miss)

ps. if you dont get the reference, go shoot yourself.... before tomorrow

Not particularly worried on this end.

I like that Krazny is preparing for zombie invasion, while i want to drink unlimited much alcohol and try to "sleep" with so many girls as possible before tomorrow @ 0900 GMT, or whenever they start it. They are creating a black hole, not a teleport to Hell, like Doom:3


BTW: Do i have to do my homework for tomorrow if we are going to be sucked into a black hole?

no

Nothing is going to happen, ...

I trust the scientists. Do I think we really need to be doing this kind of experimenting? No. But I don't think the world will explode. I'll be playing Spore.

~Heartburn

I'll just drink a good ol' litre of Famous Grouse, just to be sure...

I'm staying up all night to build a time capsule that can survive the trip through a black hole, load it with some boxes of my favorite beer, sit tight, and pray it works. Hopefully some nice aliens will pick me up when i reappear 10.000.000 lightyears away from our destroyed solarsystem.

Damn Einstein... He started all this!

to bad he's dead, we can't beat him up anymore

Doesn't mean you can't beat him up!

Oh and lucky me ... as usual Australia can live in the delusion that we're far enough away from the northern hemisphere to be safe ... all we're going to have to put up with is hordes of refugees!

Well, I am the proud owner of a 4 foot crow/breaker bar.

Goin to carry it around tomm as a joke. Probably goin to go as The good Dr as Holloween, so I'll reuse it for that.

Plus, I'm an engineering major. Collecting tools is just something I do. . . .

Don't these scientists have something better to do than trying to kill all of us? Why can't they just copy the experiment in Half Life so we can deal with that scenario instead?

They aren't colliding until October anyway..

I'm still here and we dont have imps and pink pig demons running rampart around the land

The keyword there is running! How long do you think it takes to run from Switzerland to Denmark?
If you have gordon freeman slowing their progress?



source

LOL, that's too funny haha

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/big_bang

Here's some webcams to look at. Apparently there are doing more tests right now.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Here is a site that will let you know if the world has ended due to this experiment yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

(tip: view source)

hahahaha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:577NE.jpg

I wonder which of these calibers is more likely to be on Krazny's checklist?

Neither probably.

Lots of 5.56, 12 Gauge, .45 and 9 Mil I bet.

.577 Nitro Express

That thing will probably knock even Kraz to the grass

Not really.

The thing about a caliber like that is that the recoil impulse is more of a push than a punch. It'll hurt from the prone position, but from the offhand position, its not too bad cause you can roll back with it.

Plus, guns in calibers like that are usually 16 lbs or more, so that does tend to help with the recoil. . . .

Not sure why people thought whizzing round a proton to test to see if it works was ever going to end the earth.

They collide the protons at extremely high speeds. Some people thought/think that doing this will create micro black holes which could swallow the earth.

~Heartburn

Actually thats one of the stated purposes of the test. They intend to create mini-black holes but the difference between those and say one created naturally from the expansion of a sun is that the amount of energy required to sustain a black hole long enough for it to suck anything in is not there.

Yep.

Any mini black holes created will instantly collapse due to insufficient energy and mass to sustain themselves.

The LHC is also designed to look for the Higgs Boson, and larger scale antimatter production. The latter is why many people were upset.

Matter + anti-matter = complete conversion of both to pure energy. . . . . .

Didn't know about the latter part. Might have to look that up. Sounds interesting.

It's the basis of star treks warp drive, the amount of energy it release is simply amazing. E=Mc2 if you take just 1 kg of both matter and anti matter your talking an energy release of 300 GJ

There is no future in anti-matter as an energy source.

The scientists at CERN stated that if they used all the anti-matter they had ever created, it would make enough energy to make a 40W lightbulb glow for a few minutes. And it takes enourmous amounts of energy just to create a few atoms.

Correction under current scientific knowledge they see no future in anti matter as an energy source. If someone was to find a way of producing it easily then I see no reason why it couldn't be used.

I can make it with an empty vial, a kettle, 3 liters of water and a few hours. Would that help?

http://lhccam.com/

They haven't started colliding them yet. But apparently speeding up a proton to the speed of light was enough to make people commit suicide.

The total number of antimatter molecules that have been produced can be counted on one hand.

The main reason they don't make it is because they really don't have an effective way to store or contain it. . . . .

~Heartburn

I seem to be still alive...

The internet hasn't imploded either!

lol, link?

edit: another fake?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/s...icle4744329.ece

They must be using Barney for their computer security. I wonder how long before someone finds a photo of him...

http://qntm.org/?board

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/science/...nyt&emc=rss

Crisis averted! Now we only have to worry about Cyberdyne, global warming, Sarah Palin starting nuclear war, the anti-christ coming, god punishing us for accepting gay people, viral cancer cures, secret biological weapons held in facilities with poor security, aliens wiping us out and terrorists getting angry!

Don't forget the bird flu

Don't forget the ever present threat that the king of England might come and take America back.

Neither of those constitute the end of the world.

Oh and that would be Queenie to you!

Rebellious 13 colonies indeed.