Large Hardon Collider + Big Bang! {Doomsday countdown thread}

[jAQUAN]

http://www.lhcountdown.com/?p=1
T-minus 2 day pending no more delays.
Hold on to your sparticles.

Interesting podcast
http://www.cernpodcast.com/?p=43

[hanratty21]

Large Hadron...

Wow...I glanced at this quickly and totally misread it...

[ihoss.com]

[jAQUAN]

Right because a few bloggers have predicted a conclusion that the smartest particle physicists in the world have not. W*nker.

[chrismitchell]

well it would be an interesting way to go i suppose.. i wonder how long a black hole would take to eat the earth :curious:

[silverx2]

im so using this as a way to bang as many chicks as possible before they turn it on.

[WannaBe_80z]

If they successfully created a black hold underground and something went wrong I feel that we wouldn't even know what hit us before we were sucked in.

[PAlexC]

For those of you that missed it, the Boston Globe had some awesome pictures of it. Really impressive:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._collider.html

[WannaBe_80z]

Impressive photos. Hope it doesn't kill us all.

I mean one hung over worker who didn't feel like working that day ****ed up one weld and we're dead. I wonder if this thing has an auto off.

[ChaseNYC]

All I can say is reading this made me incredibly anxious. Messing around with something that even scientists call "the a.k.a. god particle" doesn't sit well with me. Things like this make me even more anxious; why even say it:

“When we started, we did not know how to do this experiment and did not know if it would work,” he said. “Twenty-five hundred scientists can work together. Our judge is not God or governments, but nature. If we make a mistake, nature will not hesitate to punish us.”

[silverx2]

i bet it doesnt do anything. they turn it on it makes a loud bang turns off and thats it.

[ihoss.com]

Maybe we should have a Top Things to do Before You are Swallowed by a Black Hole-Thread

[silverx2]

im kinda excited to possibly go through a black hole.

[jAQUAN]

Impressive photos. Hope it doesn't kill us all.

I mean one hung over worker who didn't feel like working that day ****ed up one weld and we're dead. I wonder if this thing has an auto off.

Scrub to 00:13:30 in the podcast I linked.

[chrismitchell]

damn its going to be an interesting week with that.. and i just started a new job too lol

[ChaseNYC]

made by an employee there: worth the watch i think lol...

[WannaBe_80z]

wow that rap makes my head hurt.

[PAlexC]

You guys are a bunch of worry warts. This isn't the first particle accelerator ever built, and we've smashed atoms before. People had the same sense of paranoia about atomic bomb testing. What's going on at CERN isn't an uneducated guess, it's very calculated based on smaller-scale experiments.

The worst that'll happen is everyone inside of it will get electrocuted. There's a sh*tload of electricity running through that thing, and if there are any QC issues...zzap!

[WannaBe_80z]

I'm not really worrying- more hoping

I just still don't get the POINT of it. That 8 billion dollars could have fed a lot of people.


Just listened to a good chunk of that podcast and caught the 13:30 section. I still don't what the point it. So we can make a blackhole the size of a proton....yay.

[gerbick]

so this mother****ing thing will go off the day before my birthday?

yeah. doesn't bode well... so sayeth Gerbstradamus.