Remember the fear that the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb in 1945 might ignite the atmosphere? The Large Hadron Collider, a massive particle accelerator 17 miles in circumference that will begin operation Wednesday, comes with its own apocalyptic possibility: teensy black holes with gravitational appetites voracious enough to swallow the Earth.
30 minutes!
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 10, 2008, 02:53:56 AM
That quote is great because it includes a historical example that shows just how serious the threat is. Still, if I were in charge of the project I'd have scheduled it to start sometime in December of 2012 just to screw with people.
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Post by: Maverick on September 10, 2008, 03:04:21 AM
So we're all dead now, right? This is the afterlife?
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 10, 2008, 03:07:49 AM
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
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Post by: Bill Aurion on September 10, 2008, 03:08:18 AM
I'm fairly certain they disproved the "doomsday claims" using scientific modelling done in the 1930s.
They talk about it at length here: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/20/1158097.aspx
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Post by: Mario on September 10, 2008, 05:22:07 AM
Is "fairly certain" enough when it comes to the end of existence? Bloody scientists. Nobody cares how the world started. I better be playing Wii Sports Resort next year.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 10, 2008, 10:45:05 AM
There is a serious lack of originality in posts in this thread.
Go if you want to I never tried to stop you Know there's a reason For all of this you're feeling Low it's not my call You couldn't ever love me more You couldn't love me more You couldn't love
Me I don't show much It's not that hard to hide you See in a moment i can't remember how to Be all you wanted I couldn't ever love you more I couldn't love you more I couldn't love
You want me to cry and play my part I want you to sigh and fall apart We want this like everyone else
Stay if you want to I'll always wait to hear you Say there's a last kiss For all the times you run this Way it's not my fault You couldn't ever love me more Couldn't love me more Couldn't love
You want me to lie not break your heart I want you to fly not stop and start We want us like everything else
Maybe we didn't understand Not just a boy and a girl It's just the end of the end of the world
Me I don't say much It's far too hard to make you See in a moment I still forget just how to Be all you wanted I couldn't ever love you more I couldn't love you more
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on September 10, 2008, 11:49:38 AM
Dude! Why would you post that?! hahahahahahhahahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
I knew your were into to anime beastiality, but the robot dog? I'm sorry, but that is hilarious.
EDIT: PROTONS HAVE YET TO BE COLLIDED. END OF THE WORLD STILL POSSIBLE.
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Post by: Stogi on September 11, 2008, 01:30:17 PM
Bump.
I just read up on it and this sounds so damn interesting that even if there is a chance of ending the world, it will be worth the risk. I'm especially interested in how this might rip a hole in space/time. This could truly be the small step towards time travel and teleportation.
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Post by: Spinnzilla on September 11, 2008, 01:33:13 PM
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Post by: nickmitch on September 11, 2008, 05:57:58 PM
New eras of science are the ****.
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Post by: Stogi on September 11, 2008, 11:52:30 PM
I completely agree!
I'm getting giddy with anticipation. Even if this makes the theoretical science behind particle physics fall flat on it's face, it'll at least throw us in the right track.
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Post by: Smash_Brother on September 11, 2008, 11:54:52 PM
What's most interesting is being able to prove that wormholes exist. When the particles eventually collide at higher and higher energies, and after looking through the data, if we find that some of the subatomic particles have gone missing without a trace, it could prove that they "slipped" through spacetime as we know it. If we prove there are holes in spacetime, that is literally the first step towards time-travel.
What's even more fascinating is that future civilizations could literally pinpoint the time where we broke through spacetime for the first time in human history, and come pay us a visit.
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Post by: King of Twitch on September 15, 2008, 02:58:35 PM
Zephram Cochrane fails us yet again
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Post by: nickmitch on September 15, 2008, 03:41:02 PM
I remember Stephen Hawking saying in an interview how he wanted the LHC to not work. He seemed eager to want to get back to work on figuring out something else. I liked how the article here put nothing in both the best and worst things that could happen. Oddly profound, when you think about it.
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Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2008, 04:32:33 PM
True. On one hand particle science as we know it will literally crumple at the foundation and make us go back and rethink everything; on the other hand LHC will be a business debacle basically stall and maybe even discontinue truly expensive science.
But there are already things in place that the LHC has formed that will survive no matter what the outcome. For instance, the scientific network of computers from all over the globe, connected and interactive, has allowed scientists to communicate better than ever before.
This network shouldn't be taken lightly. It has never existed so well.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on September 15, 2008, 05:21:38 PM
SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY
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Post by: Shift Key on September 16, 2008, 05:19:23 AM
True. On one hand particle science as we know it will literally crumple at the foundation and make us go back and rethink everything; on the other hand LHC will be a business debacle basically stall and maybe even discontinue truly expensive science.
This isn't the first particle collider ever built. Its just the largest and most powerful one currently. Here's a list of others (past and present). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accelerators_in_particle_physics)
As for destroying what is known about particle physics, I highly doubt the current body of knowledge will be thrown out as a result of anything that goes on. They've already been doing this sort of experimentation in the past (and found elements like quarks), so they know a lot about particles smaller than your average atom.
If anything, it will add more clarity and breadth to the body of knowledge about particle physics, because researchers have speculated about the building blocks of atoms over the last 50 years (everything after the A-bomb basically), but the technology hasn't been feasible until recently.
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But there are already things in place that the LHC has formed that will survive no matter what the outcome. For instance, the scientific network of computers from all over the globe, connected and interactive, has allowed scientists to communicate better than ever before.
I'm fascinated about how it can transmit the volume of data they're talking about (terabytes? petabytes?) around the world in a timely manner for researchers, and whether they're sharing what they find through the network (it would be awesome to teleconference and work with others in real-time to manipulate and report on the data) or through more conventional means.
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Post by: Mario on September 16, 2008, 08:56:42 AM
We don't need to travel through time. It would destroy everything. This **** is all counterproductive.
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Post by: mantidor on September 16, 2008, 10:05:11 AM
We all know the real year of the end of the world is 2012, nothing to see here.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 16, 2008, 12:16:25 PM
this thread is to serious for my funhouse needs.
heres a joke to lighten things up:
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...so i said "super collider? I just met her!"
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 16, 2008, 12:20:19 PM
HumorBot 5.0, ladies and gentlemen, he's here all week.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 16, 2008, 12:35:09 PM
5. "See you at the fight. *next scene* So then I said, 'See you at the fight.'" - Bender
And there's a hell of alot of Zap quotes that I love...
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Post by: nickmitch on September 17, 2008, 12:20:01 AM
Futurama=the+****
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Post by: animecyberrat on September 20, 2008, 12:48:24 AM
When I first heard about this I thought well now we know how the bottomless pit gets opened. Then I remembered the timing is off. Or maybe it was something to do with the black holes they were talking about, I have this obsession with black holes.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 20, 2008, 03:50:41 PM
5. "See you at the fight. *next scene* So then I said, 'See you at the fight.'" - Bender
And there's a hell of alot of Zap quotes that I love...
i love some of the more random lines that wouldnt be funny without context. The one that sticks out the most to me is Bender chanting "go, go man, go!" to cheer fry on as he pours cereal/milk on his head, chops up some bananas and eats it. Every single time i'm laughing my ass off and thinking "wtf?"
and yes, Zap does have some of the best stuff, but he might not be as funny with Kiff's broken spirit:
"I have a sexy learning disability... what do i call it Kiff?" ....siiiiig........sexlexia
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Post by: Armak88 on September 20, 2008, 06:19:12 PM
"Rock beats scissors, but scissors beat paper.... and paper beats rock? Kiff, we have a conundrum!"
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Post by: nickmitch on September 20, 2008, 06:49:08 PM
"It's like sex, only I'm having it."
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Post by: EasyCure on September 21, 2008, 04:27:07 PM
"i dunno.... i aint never heard of no mayor"
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Post by: nickmitch on September 21, 2008, 07:59:53 PM
"What do I look like, someone who's not lazy?!"
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Post by: EasyCure on September 21, 2008, 08:52:06 PM
"she's got more meat than a cow!"
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Post by: nickmitch on September 21, 2008, 09:21:39 PM
"I'll just redirect the ship, towards that blackish hole-ish thing."
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Post by: EasyCure on September 21, 2008, 10:01:44 PM
"We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised. "
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Post by: nickmitch on September 21, 2008, 11:53:29 PM
"I never thought I'd die this way, but I had always hoped."
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Post by: EasyCure on September 22, 2008, 12:15:53 AM
we might as wel just start a thread for this. It's already turning out like the song titles thread with you and I going back and forth (with a lil vudu thrown in every now and again)
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Post by: Stogi on September 22, 2008, 01:26:08 AM
"stop it, stop it; it's fine. I will destroy you!"
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Post by: EasyCure on September 22, 2008, 10:18:14 AM
"Mmm.. This jerked chicken is quite good.. Remind me to have Fry's lower horn jerked"
(Bender off screen) "WHOoooooaa!!! ITS USED TO IT!"
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Post by: Stogi on September 22, 2008, 12:18:27 PM
You know I'm going to talk about the LHC once it's back in the news right? Till then...
"People will pay for love?....I just thought of a plan so devious that.." *Gavel pound* "Bender, you are here-by charged with soliciting prostitution" "WE LOVE YOU, BENDER!" "I know, baby!"
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Post by: EasyCure on September 22, 2008, 01:37:26 PM
You know I'm going to talk about the LHC once it's back in the news right? Till then...
"People will pay for love?....I just thought of a plan so devious that.." *Gavel pound* "Bender, you are here-by charged with soliciting prostitution" "WE LOVE YOU, BENDER!" "I know, baby!"
Oh we know, we're just keeping this thread fresh in everyones mind so they don't forget.
"I condemn you to Death my Snu-snu"
(Fry and Zap) *smile/frown/smile/frown/smile/frown (Kiff)*frown.......................................................*
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Post by: nickmitch on September 22, 2008, 04:06:15 PM
"Hi, I'm Pamela Anderson! You may remember me from Baywatch: The Movie." "Uhh. . ." "It was the first movie to be filmed entirely in slow motion!" "It's 1999, that movie hasn't been made, yet." "So he doesn't know I won the Oscar??"
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 22, 2008, 11:02:53 PM
"Kill all humans....kill all humans.....hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?"
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Post by: EasyCure on September 22, 2008, 11:22:51 PM
"Bigfoot! He's real! I knew it! The Loch Ness Monster's book was right!"
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Post by: nickmitch on September 23, 2008, 11:14:20 AM
"...but I pulled it out in the end!" "JUST LIKE THAT TIME AT THE MOVIE THEATER!! "WWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
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Post by: EasyCure on September 23, 2008, 11:37:34 AM
"I feel like i was mauled by Jesus!"
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 23, 2008, 01:05:29 PM
"Something strange has just happened in this basketball game between space clowns and atomic monsters."
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Post by: EasyCure on September 23, 2008, 02:33:40 PM
"Why would Nixon stay at the Watergate?"
"They give you a discount if you've been here before"
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Post by: Stogi on September 23, 2008, 02:39:44 PM
"We can quit the army immediately after signing in, right?
