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nodubmanshouts wrote:Your ARSE is a mini black hole?

you really don't want to go there

nodubmanshouts wrote:Your ARSE is a mini black hole?

yep...but it doesn't "eats" anything....at the contrary...

The World better not end, I've got a radio show to do!

i have to pay my bills....

I was at my mum's hair salon yesterday getting a rare haircut, and the stylist was telling me that reports of "the big experiment in Geneva is going to kill us all" was all over the news. She said her kids and husband were joking about it[1], and her younger children (around 10) overheard and have been scared s**t about it.

Now, my friends and I have been joking about the LHC doing this for ages, but we had no idea that anyone was taking the "end of the world" suggestion SERIOUSLY.

Apparently on TV they were asking a scientist about whether or not the experiments would find a cure for cancer. I wonder if the Daily Mail has anything to do with that...



[1] We thought it'd be perfect if there were a storm today, and the power went out, so many people would just s**t themselves.

Dark wrote:on TV they were asking a scientist about whether or not the experiments would find a cure for cancer.

Charles Babbage wrote:I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Well, if it cures cancer, it may lower the house prices, lower the amount of gay priests, stop immigration, find the cause of Diana's death, halt benefits, bring back national service...

..or may even open the gates to a parallel universe in which the princess of hearts didn't crash.

*Alt text: Collider? I barely even know 'er!

in post 45, I wrote:xkcd

Well we are still here right? Or is this event planned for this evening?

I'd better go do some shopping for dinner tonight and a bottle of red wine.

And thanks for the reminder of that radio show dear Rob sir!

The beam is on going round one way, the collisions don't start for six weeks or so.

markfiend wrote:The beam is on going round one way, the collisions don't start for six weeks or so.

Oh, thanks, I'd just comforted myself, but now I don't know

My mistake: the beams each way have been tested, but I'm right that the collisions aren't scheduled to start until October 21st.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_hadr ... t_timeline

Phew! Was getting kinda worried there that I'd miss the next 2 Spiritualized gigs on account of this.

Dunno about youse, but if the world don't end I certainly want my 6 billion back.

robertzombie wrote:The World better not end, I've got a radio show to do!

I am lovin' that plug, Mr. Zombie!

Is all this brought to us by the same people who were responsible for informing us that planes were going to fall out of the sky and nations were going to implode at the Millenium?

Dancing with tears in my eyes

boudicca wrote:Dancing with tears in my eyes

...like there's no tomorrow!

PS: edited title

IZ.

kept Kerry Katona and Jordan off the front page for a day or so, can't be all that bad

1) Stephen Hawking has $100 that they won't find what they're looking for.

2) If colliders can produce black holes, cosmic rays (and particularly ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, UHECRs) should have been producing them for eons, and they have yet to harm us

3) Still doesn't mean I won't be taking the p*ss to the ignorant masses though

Obviousman wrote:

markfiend wrote:The beam is on going round one way, the collisions don't start for six weeks or so.

Oh, thanks, I'd just comforted myself, but now I don't know

No hang on folks this is no laughing matter. I've just seen the dutch news report as what they are wanting to prove in theory. Good heavens...what happens if when these thingys collide underground and then we have a core man-made problem that will have effects on the surface.

Someone wise once said we shouldn't try and understand nature just let her be but no what do we do as humans? We don't listen do we and trust me in this same breath I also am so for what science can prove from what we can actually explain... but some answers to theories are just ... can't we prove these huge bang effects on ground not under us but like way way far away?

Good heavens all of a sudden it doesn't seem such a good idea but hey I can't stop it now.

Why should we not understand our lives?
If nature didn't follow these rules, then we wouldn't be able to find them out.

Don't believe all the sensationalism in the news, they want everyone to believe we'll be sucked into black holes, detonated, turned into a lump of strange matter.. it won't happen.

Good heavens...no the dutch news is very to the point kind of thing happening everyday in the world kinda thing. Even I know no one will ever pin pick the exact date as it's because mother nature is just so unpredictable as well as adaptable that's what makes her unexpectionable.

We'll probably kill each other before she goes anyway at the rate we are going....meaning the outside world.

markfiend wrote:My mistake: the beams each way have been tested, but I'm right that the collisions aren't scheduled to start until October 21st.

yus, it's a bit like the velodrome at the moment.

didn't the atomic bomb scientists have a bet whether it would set fire to the atmosphere? you can trust a scientist

Dark wrote:Why should we not understand our lives?
If nature didn't follow these rules,

Nature doesn't follow rules , it makes them up as it evolves.

sooooooo to the point ATM

IZ.