Author Topic: The world ends in three hours! (Read 21197 times)

vudu · « **Reply #25 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:07:28 PM »

No **** it's Gman. It's Photoshopped.

Stogi · « **Reply #26 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:53:44 PM »

That's pretty damn impressive.

Stogi · « **Reply #27 on:** September 15, 2008, 02:51:58 PM »

BUMP

I just can't keep myself away from LHC. It's too damned interesting.

Here's a list of the best and worst things that could happen this year.

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/09/lhc-top-5-best-and-worst-things-that.html

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.

King of Twitch · « **Reply #28 on:** September 15, 2008, 02:58:35 PM »

Zephram Cochrane fails us yet again

nickmitch · « **Reply #29 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.

Stogi · « **Reply #30 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.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #31 on:** September 15, 2008, 05:21:38 PM »

SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY

Shift Key · « **Reply #32 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:19:23 AM »

Quote from: KashogiStogi 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.

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).

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.

Mario · « **Reply #33 on:** September 16, 2008, 08:56:42 AM »

We don't need to travel through time. It would destroy everything. This **** is all counterproductive.

mantidor · « **Reply #34 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.

EasyCure · « **Reply #35 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!"

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #36 on:** September 16, 2008, 12:20:19 PM »

HumorBot 5.0, ladies and gentlemen, he's here all week.

Plugabugz · « **Reply #37 on:** September 16, 2008, 12:35:09 PM »

If the world is ending: DO THIS.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/cnn_broadcast/

Stogi · « **Reply #38 on:** September 16, 2008, 12:45:01 PM »

hilarious!

EasyCure · « **Reply #39 on:** September 16, 2008, 12:51:01 PM »

Quote from: insanolord on September 16, 2008, 12:20:19 PM

HumorBot 5.0, ladies and gentlemen, he's here all week.

i'm actually surprised this thread went thhis long without anyone else having said it. I know alot of us are Futurama fans.

Stogi · « **Reply #40 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:15:02 AM »

I love me some futurama; and your right, it's so damn quotable.

1. "Bender, there's no such thing as 2." - Fry

3. "We're doomed! *Breathes in* DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *gets cut off* " - Bender

4. "Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it!........Fix it, Fix it!" - Fry

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...

nickmitch · « **Reply #41 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:20:01 AM »

Futurama=the+****

animecyberrat · « **Reply #42 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.

EasyCure · « **Reply #43 on:** September 20, 2008, 03:50:41 PM »

Quote from: KashogiStogi on September 17, 2008, 12:15:02 AM

I love me some futurama; and your right, it's so damn quotable.

1. "Bender, there's no such thing as 2." - Fry

3. "We're doomed! *Breathes in* DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *gets cut off* " - Bender

4. "Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it!........Fix it, Fix it!" - Fry

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

Armak88 · « **Reply #44 on:** September 20, 2008, 06:19:12 PM »

"Rock beats scissors, but scissors beat paper.... and paper beats rock? Kiff, we have a conundrum!"

nickmitch · « **Reply #45 on:** September 20, 2008, 06:49:08 PM »

"It's like sex, only I'm having it."

EasyCure · « **Reply #46 on:** September 21, 2008, 04:27:07 PM »

"i dunno.... i aint never heard of no mayor"

nickmitch · « **Reply #47 on:** September 21, 2008, 07:59:53 PM »

"What do I look like, someone who's not lazy?!"

EasyCure · « **Reply #48 on:** September 21, 2008, 08:52:06 PM »

"she's got more meat than a cow!"

nickmitch · « **Reply #49 on:** September 21, 2008, 09:21:39 PM »

"I'll just redirect the ship, towards that blackish hole-ish thing."

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